Government has yet to live up to a promise to relocate disabled adults out of the temporary accommodation where they were placed ten years ago.Parents whose children are clients at the Orange Valley Centre yesterday described it to The Royal Gazette as “cramped and with no room for equipment”.Asked why they felt a promised move out of the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute had never gone through, one parent said: “The answer is money. They don’t have any. The cost was evidently prohibitive.“I think they’re doing the best they can, with very little money.”A Government spokeswoman said that a work experience programme initiated last month has seen younger adults moved from the Orange Valley Centre programme to the Opportunity Workshop on Roberts Avenue, Devonshire. The Royal Gazette understands that the centre now only caters to clients aged 40 and older.The spokeswoman said that the Ministry of Health remains committed to relocating the entire centre, but couldn’t say when that would take place.“A much smaller day programme for older clients will continue to operate from MWI but because there will be far fewer clients involved, the space limitations that have been the main issue will be resolved,” she said.Former Health Minister Zane DeSilva promised in the lead-in to last December’s General Election that the entire facility would move as part of a partnership with the Opportunity Workshop, a training centre for young adults.No further information on that pledge has been given, Orange Valley parents told this newspaper.The Orange Valley Centre was moved from Parsons Lane in 2003 to make way for the Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy for children with special needs. Then Health Minister Patrice Minors said she hoped a permanent location could be found within three months for the facility and its 40-odd clients.Today, the programme has its own entrance at MWI and runs separately from the hospital itself. The lack of space at what was originally the St Brendan’s Social Centre has come under constant criticism from clients, many of whom use wheelchairs and require constant attention from staff.Two plans were considered as part of the previous administration’s aim to relocate the Orange Valley Centre. One was to modify mobile homes and place them behind the Opportunity Workshop; another was to renovate a gymnasium at the Devonshire site.Mr DeSilva yesterday acknowledged that any move would likely prove an expensive undertaking.“I’m sure [the current] Government is still looking at those plans,” he said, noting that since the election he’s raised the issue with Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.“The Minister has always stated it was on the agenda.”He added: “Cost in government is always a big part of any decision but personally, as the Minister at the time, I felt we just had to find money,” he said. “It’s well documented from the time of the move that it was supposed to be temporarily at MWI — that was ten years ago. We deserved to get some licks from the Opposition on that, and we got them. But once I saw the conditions under which they were operating, I said something had to be done. And we were close.“We were going to look at our budget and see where we could juggle the funds to make it happen. It was going to be tight, because we had cut our budget and, had we been elected, we would have made further cuts. But we still felt it had to happen.”Mr DeSilva said the move would have also allowed the centre to take on more clients and alleviate the burden on their families.“We didn’t think it would mean having to take on a lot more staff — maybe a couple more people,” he said. “And we were going to ask the families of special needs people to contribute as well.”Asked to evaluate the latest move, which is aimed at giving clients vocational assessment and eventual jobs, the parent of an Orange Valley client said: “Maybe I’m being a bit of a pessimist but as far as employing people who have a handicap goes, at a time when ordinary people can’t get jobs, it seems like a very difficult undertaking.“They’re still keeping the centre at MWI. I guess there will be a lot more room. There will be ten people there, and there were formerly 24. They might even be able to make a space for the teachers at Orange Valley. We’ll have to see.”