There are lots of reasons why the right community care and support for people with learning disabilities and autistic people just isn’t there.

One of those reasons is the huge power imbalance that exists between professionals and people and families.

We asked our community to…

According to J, ‘Being angry is like green jelly going through a pipe in Sainsbury's.’

I can relate to that.....

Went to a few meetings to support parents at this hospital.
Let’s just say it’s about time it was closed.

What a remarkable and ominous paragraph in Matthew Parris's The Times and The Sunday Times column today.

Any society that comes to think of 'human beings as in deficit or surplus to the collective', or of societies as more important than the individuals that make them up, would be on a very slippery…

Such a condescending video

Parents ‘sometimes feel like they have to fight the system’

Always not sometimes, Gillian.

The Tories have dismantled SEND funding over the past 14 and now they want to pat themselves on the back because they’re slinging a few quid at it.

Sickening.

What are they really counting?

Why is everyone so focussed on the numbers of autistic people and people with learning disabilities stuck in hospitals?

What does this actually tell us…if anything?

Often the reason why our people are detained is because they are in a totally…

“Many of the patients moved out of hospitals are simply placed in mini-institutions masquerading as supported living, although there is much evidence of people with highly-complex needs thriving in communities with correct support. The local government funding crisis makes…

270,300 CYP are still waiting for mental health support after being referred in 2022-23.

372,800 had their referral closed before accessing support.

40k waited > 2years for MH treatment.

31k reached a point of MHA crisis last year. itv.com/news/2024-03-1…

Meetings with NHSE have got me on the hard stuff tonight..

Please come and join us on April 17th.

Homes not Hospitals (Wales)

The government imports care workers to look after British families but callously insists they must be separated from their own families. Then they boast about it, underling how the Tory party has ended up in such a twisted place

Peanuts to this lot…

independent.co.uk/news/health/ho…

Dear Halifax
I am fed up with asking you to stop hassling my learning disabled son because you have let some conman use his address to set up a bank account.
Now you are threatening with solicitors.
Can you sort your act out please?

This sounds super technical, but it’s incredibly important from a disability rights perspective - you can only properly decide if someone has capacity to take a particular decision if you know what the relevant information is for that type of decision

“It is hard to trust the state to help marginalised people to die when they fail to support them to live”.

Important voice in the assisted dying debate, echoing concerns raised by our study of euthanasia for people with learning disabilities rb.gy/ln35xk

Oof this is blisteringly good from John Crace on Sunak’s little stunt last night 🔥theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Start with your own party Rishi Sunak. Not only do you stir up hatred of difference, you fail to protect the people who need help the most and you leave disabled people to suffer and die.

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For the purposes of transparency, we have published our presentation from yesterday. It can be found below:

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