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The special needs hotel. S01e02.
In Somerset, things have been running smoothly at Foxes Hotel. This grand Victorian establishment in Minehead has the added distinction of providing training places for some 63 young people with various learning disabilities, who agreed to be filmed doing the dishes, chatting to guests and organising catering. Obviously The Special Needs Hotel had all the makings of a grimly voyeuristic, condescending and exploitative exercise.
This series isn't, though, and strikes a pleasing balance been showing us how talented and able people with learning disabilities are, but also recognising their various shortcomings, as with the rest of the population.
Calum, for example, is autistic and in his twenties and until he went on the Foxes apprenticeship scheme had never made a phone call to a stranger in his entire life. Ordering a range of party food for a disco was a challenge; his friends were concerned that he would just read out the list and put the phone down. But he managed a little chitchat before listing the impressively wide enrage of potato-and corn-based snacks he was planning to treat his guests to.
Calum was building his own personality with a plan that exists only in his head, and it was amazing to observe.

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