#dreamteam

Don't forget that we welcome responses to #LaughingBoy , the play currently on at Jermyn Street Theatre

Poem, artwork, short blog-style piece...don't feel constrained by traditional reviews or academic-ese

We will create a bricolage piece to celebrate this event

#DisabilityTwitter

I wrote about what I’d been reading, for the The Guardian. Now: editing’s important. I’m happy to be edited and I welcome it. But isn’t it funny how it’s always the same word that gets edited out? theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

I wasn’t planning on voting today. Strikes me as a largely ineffective and expensive job for someone who wants to move on from another job. Am I wrong?

We disyouthtransesrc made a submission to this Work & Pensions Committee inquiry into disability employment, based on emerging findings from our research with disabled young people in the North East of England & Central Scotland.

You can read our evidence here:

tinyurl.com/58rtb9hx

Deadline extended to 13 May!

“The problem is that we regularly conflate “homes” with “institutions”. We hope that, by calling a place a home, it sets us apart from our carceral past yet, often, the inner dynamics remain institutional.” Lucy Series UoBris PolicyStudies always worth reading.

Another funded PhD opportunity at the Centre for Adult Social Care at Cardiff - Exploring the Variation and Equality of Access for at risk Adults in receipt of Care and Support in Wales tdy.lol/jAcNb

News. Staff who abused children at a special school in Walthamstow have not been sacked, according to a BBC investigation.

CCTV footage shows children being slammed, kicked and hit with force. Dame Rachel de Souza has described the findings as 'horrifying'.

learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/horrifyin…

Early birdie.

Alison means the #stolenlives protest. Yet the Welsh Government say no one is “inappropriately placed.”

Amazing opportunity to study an important topic and work with a wonderful human being! Hannah Madden

Our article is in the latest issue of IJDD: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
We report that people with intellectual disabilities give the same reasons for hurting themselves as everyone else. Seems obvious, but we currently don't respond as if this is the case. Time for a change.

MLMC members are disappointed to hear the government's plan to change disability benefits. Co-Chair of the Trustees Benjamin McCay said 'this would be disastrous. Poor and vulnerable people are easy targets for a desperate government.' #PIP #Benefits