Tootfinder

I've only just learned of the death of our former colleague Chris Gathercole last April. I knew him as an advocate for learning disabled people, taking their place, with support, in the life of the community. He had a profound influence on provision in the North West, where with Tom Mclean, who died the previous year, and others, he steered into being a radical policy framework that shaped the pattern of de-institutionalisation in the region.