Parents protest to let them bring their sons home from hospital<br /><br />Fraser Malcolm age 20 is just one of the young men whose families are taking their protests to the Scottish Parliament.<br /><br />They say their sons are cruelly locked in hospitals, where they have far fewer rights and sometimes struggle to access basics such as time outside in the fresh air.<br /><br />Fraser Malcolm has been in a secure hospital in Ayrshire for two-and-a-half years but has been recorded as "delayed discharge" since September 2022.<br /><br />This means he has been cleared by doctors to be released but no arrangements have been made for him to live in the community.<br /><br />The 20-year-old has a learning disability and is almost non-verbal, with complex care needs.<br /><br />In February 2022, the Scottish government published the Coming Home Report, a major paper on people like Jamie and Fraser, with a "mission to significantly reduce delayed discharge… for adults with learning disabilities and complex care needs by March 2024."<br /><br />The families say not enough is being done to deliver on the recommendations of the report to bring people like their sons home and to give them a voice.<br /><br />They are calling on the Scottish government and politicians to do more so that young men like Fraser can live in the community with the right support.<br /><br />The Scottish government says it introduced a Dynamic Support Register earlier this year, designed to get a fuller picture of the hundreds of people like Fraser who may have become stuck in the system.
