Many children are born so handicapped that they must quickly die or at best live miserably for a while unless they are given constant and expensive care. There are probably no more such casualties than there used to be—many were hidden away-but there are certainly more survivors. What now is done, could be done, should be done: what would it cost, and who would pay?
In the studio: DR. STEPHEN BLACK. Director of a research unit in the field of psychophysiology (chairman): THE RT. HON. J. ENOCH POWELL , M.B.E-. M.P.. as formerly a Minister of Health; ALLEN FIELD. Headmaster, the Shaftesbury Society's Corey Hill School; R. B. ZACHARY. F.R.C.S., paediatric surgeon and Chairman of the Spina Bifida Trust; ELIZABETH CLEVERDON SKELLON. who has worked for some years in this field: with recorded contributions from others, including both sufferers and their parents
Produced by Patrick Harvey