LAST week, Hazel Best wrote very movingly about her son Mark (Journal Postbag, December 3) and the way he was forced by Scope to leave Shapland Close – his home for more than 20 years. My daughter Megan also had to leave the home, residents receiving less than one month’s notice.

But I would also like to tell you about another resident from Shapland Close who has no family or friends to speak up for her (of course, she has got a social worker who will have done their best, but that is not the same as a family member).

She is unable to speak or eat (she is fed through the stomach), has little movement and is wheelchair-bound. She does have some understanding and communication ability and once when I was in Salisbury pushing Megan in her wheelchair, we met this lady in her wheelchair; she was so pleased to see Megan she laughed and smiled.

Now she has been sent to a home where she knows no one.

None of the other residents have been sent there and she knows none of the support workers.

Is she laughing and smiling now? She has been unwell for some time – nevertheless, she was still sent away because Scope said the home must close on December 1.

We are not allowed to know where she has gone, so none of us can visit her. This lady is a human being but has she been treated like one? How can a charity behave in such an uncharitable and callous way?

MERRIN HOLROYD Salisbury