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If you haven't read this series, this is a great deal! Brilliant characters, great storytelling!

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“Men, for 58 years: football's coming home, it's coming home Women: oh for god's sake I'll get it myself”

BREAKING: A Christian priest and Druze sheikhs are out in the streets of Suwayda, Syria calling for the international community to protect them from Islamists. Nearly 3,000 innocent Druze and Christians have been slaughtered in just the past two weeks.

29th July 2024. Three little girls butchered in a Taylor Swift dance class. Bebe. Elsie. Alice. They weren’t soldiers. They weren’t politicians. They were children. Ribboned, laughing, dancing and then gone. A nation wept. But what did the regime do? They wept for

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Please sign & share got until end of august to reach 10,000 signatures Petition: Establish Complaints Commission for Social Care, Health, Education & Benefits petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7128…

Very sad to hear about Allan Ahlberg. There was more in those little books than in many a weighty tome. What a legacy. RIP

#OliversCampaign I am angry NHS England Workforce, Training and Education have always been clear: people with a learning disability & autistic individuals delivering Oliver’s Training should be paid Band 5 rates Yet many charities with contracts to deliver it are paying minimum wage Not On My Watch Please retweet

To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone. I didn't choose to

When a paid carer works too many hours, it’s a safeguarding concern. When an unpaid carer does the same, it’s called “love and duty.” That double standard is costing lives — and the system relies on it to save money. 🪡

We did this 22 years ago. Best decision ever! I would have liked to go back full time but my youngest had too many needs to be able to. So I got a part time job, still doing the same job, 7 hrs a week, 17 years later and love it! It gives me a break from his care!

You need a doctor once a year maybe and a fireman once in a lifetime, if you’re unlucky. But you need a farmer three times a day. - wise words from Kaleb Cooper.

Let’s talk about ATUs and autism. More than a decade ago HMG promised to end the detention of autistic under MHA. Sadly 2000+ people are still detained. Disabled people are never a priority.

Someone was apparently arrested for saying in public that he liked bacon. If Monty Python was re-released now, people would think it was a documentary...

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'Millions of children with #autism could unknowingly be suffering key vitamin deficiencies,research today suggested': dailymail.co.uk/health/article… 'Experts,who labelled the findings important,urged officials to consider implementing routine nutrition checks for children with autism'

And what about those families unable to work because of lack of social care and support for their disabled relatives? Unpaid carers save the government BILLIONS each year and yet...working people, working people, working people. #autism #epilepsy #FragileX