'We are entitled to speak to the Prime Minister.' Melanie Leahy, mother of Matthew Leahy, calls for a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer as the inquiry into mental health patient deaths, including her son's, begins tomorrow. trib.al/Rx0iR33 📺 Sky 501, Freeview 233 and

Hands up if you’re having to find £400 every month to make sure your over-16 can get to school every day. Yep, that’s what parents of disabled young people are having to do now that disabled transport has been cut. And it sometimes feels as if no one gives a damn. Do you?

"We may never know" the true number of people who died. it’s expected to be "significantly in excess" of the reported 2,000 figure We’ve known that for a long, long time!!! #matthewscampaign

I am one of the Birmingham families fighting to reinstate transport for my son to go to his specialist school which is ten miles away. Shame on Bham City Council for putting us through this. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Disabled people treated "as an afterthought" during the pandemic - the Disability Charities Consortium asks UK Covid-19 Inquiry to consider the impact of the pandemic on disabled people this week as Module 3 of the Inquiry gets underway.

Campaigning for Change. Rightful Lives joined up with several other organisations to prepare briefings on Mental Health Act reform and Community Care. Share with your MP! challengingbehaviour.org.uk/what-we-do/str…

You may be interested in this briefing Layla Moran 🔶🕊️. It explains how autistic people and people with learning disabilities can live meaningful lives in the community rather than languish in psychiatric hospitals. We cannot change the Mental Health Act for these groups until

Hugely powerful testament on BBC Woman's Hour Nuala McGovern Katie says the #SEND system failed her. Are Mums Bridging the Gap?Children's Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza Catriona Moore IPSEA Disabled Children's Partnership Sam Carlisle Catherine McKinnell National Autistic Society Rightful Lives Patricia Alban Mencap

Listen to the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour episode with our columnist Catriona Moore: Is the SEND system working for children with special educational needs and disabilities? - BBC Sounds - bbc.in/3XDFWYp

Looks as if the police saw him as an easy target… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

‘Fighting every step is so hard' Katie, 17, is autistic and has barely been to school since she was 13. She joined Nuala McGovern to discuss her experience as a child navigating England’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, and how it has impacted her.

FYI Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Straight from Lord Darzi #NHS report today. We are failing people with learning disabilities. Read that ⬇️ only 4 in 10 reach their 65th birthday, and we are still locking up autistics (including children) 2000 + for years. How long will it go on, Wes Streeting MP? We are dying.

As The Lampard Inquiry finishes its first week hearing opening statements, another Prevention of Future Deaths Notice is issued to EPUT by a coroner bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Department for Work and Pensions has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five years, at a time when its policy decisions were causing countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants. buff.ly/3MHWsAd

Still silence from Wes Streeting MP on these issues👇, underling the shamefully low priority given to citizens with learning disabilities

More awful stories on our Facebook group this morning. Please come over and help Claire Murdoch Stephen Kinnock Wes Streeting MP Eluned Morgan because autistic people and people with learning disabilities are being treated appallingly by the health and social care systems.

A senior special school leader, who asked not to be identified, has exclusively revealed to me the impact of cuts to transport for SEND 16-19 year olds. He told me he wants to give the council a chance to sort things out, before he speaks out publicly bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

#tewv #bethbreach Dear Coroner Dr Jay Watts Royal College of Psychiatrists Dr Naomi Murphy 🌹ESSEX MENTAL HEALTH INQUIRY🌹 Rightful Lives Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

If my kids with disabilties who had EHCPs ever feel guilty about being on disability benefits I will tell them straight. That's compensation for the council, SENDIST tribunal and The DFE f*cking up your education leaving you out of school and making it impossible for you to get a