4/ More details on #MealsonWheels2023 week: bitly.ws/WQkI UoBris PolicyStudies University of Bristol @pwillis5 A May Cameron

🚨 £10m new funding for prevention research 🚨 💡 The collaboration with NIHR SPHR NIHR School for Primary Care Research will deliver research to help promote health and wellbeing, treat conditions early, and manage health problems to prevent severe disease. Read more 👉 sscr.nihr.ac.uk/funding-of-10-…

"I tend to bottle things up, but this time, I knew I needed some support." 💙 This #WorldMentalHealthDay, Paul shares the difficulties with mental health that many people experience after a loved one has been diagnosed with #dementia: dementiauk.org/information-an…

NEW REPORT: The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England 2023 report has just been published. ➡️Take a look now: bit.ly/3F9jcWd #StateOfReport

Still time to sign up for this event later today 👇🏻

Prof Sir Chris Whitty says UK faces rural & coastal ageing crisis - Policies needed to reduce disease & disability & help people to eat well & stay fit. Make housing, transport & the environment more age friendly, so people can live independently bbc.co.uk/news/health-67…

Shameful, devastating, racist. Wanjirū Doseline is a brilliant and much-valued colleague - what she and her daughter have been put through is evil theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

Couldn't sleep, wrote a blog. Pals - PLEASE read and think about a comment or a RT if you're inclined. I feel like it needs more light shining on it. Diolch. @robosbornewales Mencap Cymru Learning Disability Wales michael sheen 💙 Julie Morgan MS Catherine Fookes MP blogsfromthetyla.home.blog/2023/11/15/eve…

Sunday is #InternationalMensDay so I'm pleased to share this short film highlighting key findings from my recent NIHR School for Social Care Research UoBris PolicyStudies project exploring older men's mental health and use of community groups 👉youtu.be/992Eb2hbuQE?si… Please share for #MensMentalHealth

I do hope that people with learning disabilities including those who are Black and from other ethnic minorities feature really heavily in these National Institute for Health and Care Research given today’s (non) shock news: x.com/saba_salman/st…

"The way we as parents have been treated since 2016, by services who are supposed to be there to help and support, is inexcusable.... Instead of parent-blaming, they should be looking hard at their own actions and damage they are causing to families..."

Great to see this reflection from Angeliki Papadaki on her important and impactful SSCR-funded research into #MealsonWheels ⬇️

Free session about how accessible #housing information can help people and families make choices about the future... Hear about useful guides from LDEngland and What Really Matters to help people start their housing journey: tinyurl.com/5n8xcy95

LDEngland has been working on a housing guide to help people with a #learningdisability and their families know about their rights and choices and think about where they want to live... Find it here: housinglin.org.uk/News/Learning-… @HLINconsult #Housing

Please come along to our webinar with BASW - experts by experience are leading, join us and challenge ageism #socialwork #socialcare

“..the multiple and severe disruptions to health services (with the exception of COVID-19 vaccination) that people with learning disabilities experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic have continued and in some respects worsened in the United Kingdom in the ‘postpandemic’ phase.”

Some of the brightest stars in the disability movement went to and would advocate for 'specialist'/'segregated' school/college education. I think it's a complicated and contentious issue.

A great opportunity 👇🏻

[I am unashamedly promoting Laughing Boy for its entire run. Maybe should apply this approach to my own work 😆.]

We need good leaders #JusticeForMuckamore