happy pride month if your celebrations aren’t accessible for disabled people then it isn’t pride 🏳️‍🌈

Fantastic day presenting with Vijay Patel at the Patient-centred Care in Medical Imaging course Diagnostic Radiography: City, St George's UoL. Thanks to Dr Christina Malamateniou (she/her) for inviting us to speak! 🎉 Mencap

NEW. What are the biggest issues facing people with a learning disability? A survey from Mencap looks at issues such as healthcare and discrimination with the aim of using the results to campaign for change. learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/what-are-the-b… #LearningDisabilityWeek #LDWeek23

Given the size and scale of the ticket office closures, with such profound impacts on disabled people, it is staggering that disabled people and our orgs have not had the opportunity to influence this policy at a National level. (1/4)

💬 We asked people with a learning disability to share their experiences of the ‘R’ word. They were so upset and traumatised by the word, they didn’t want to speak about it on camera. This is what they told us. 📢 Challenge it. Report it.

The UK government's 'no show' at the UN meeting on disability rights sends the message to the learning disability community that they are not a priority. It is crucial that UK ministers show up on the world stage to advocate and progress the rights of disabled people.

We are joint funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and delighted to be partnering with Mencap , WellChild , @MightyCreatives , Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children , UCLPartners and NHS North Central London and our parent co-applicant Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky Read the news story here: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…

Brilliant news! Greece becomes the 16th EU country and the first Christian Orthodox country to legalise same-sex marriage! 🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

One of our National Institute for Health and Care Research funded parent workshops for the UCL_SPROCKET project. So important to hear the lived experience of parents, but also desperately sad to hear how impossibly hard the system is for families. Prof Monica Lakhanpaul Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky WellChild CORU

I've signed @Mencap_charity’s petition calling on all political parties to commit to better pay for social care workers. Will you sign too? secure.mencap.org.uk/en-gb/whywecare #WhyWeCare

🚨 Around £534 million is spent on inpatient beds for over 2,000 people with a learning disability & autistic people in England. Exclusive data gathered by ITV News & analysed by Mencap has exposed the shocking cost of keeping these people locked away in mental health hospitals.

Fight to free autistic people from hospitals - as govt misses crucial target Read more🔗 news.sky.com/story/you-star…

Good luck to our inspiring runners! 🥇 Enjoy every moment and make some special memories 💙 You’re all heroes 🥇 Terrence Higgins Trust #LondonMarathon

On #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay, we have collaborated with Mencap to develop a Virtual Issue of JIDR. You can read the issue, including the Editorial by Dr Dr Carla Barrett, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111… Wiley Psychology Wiley

THREAD: We've been working on UCL_SPROCKET to improve services for children with complex health needs. As part of that, we worked with parents to capture some of their lived experience in 3 animations. This one highlights how *everything* is a fight - it's exhausting. 1/5

🚨New Scope Research Disabled households need an extra £1,010 each month just to have the same standard of living as non-disabled households. Life costs more if you're Disabled, and how we are treated in society forces us into poverty - it's not a given, but a political choice.

It was never about them or their supreme qualifications, it was about misogyny, racism, hate and fascism.

In 1983, Tony Whitehead registered the first HIV charity in Europe, in the name Terry Higgins. Tonight, at UK Prime Minister, Tony heard Keir Starmer invest £27 million in opt-out HIV testing and commit to end the HIV epidemic in England by 2030. Thank you Prime Minister.