Tes SEND Show Dame Christine Lenehan tells us that if we could harness the passion, the power,the advocacy of parents into our SEND systems, we would spend less time seemingly at war with them…..

"When a child is in a state of fear, their functional IQ can drop up to 40 points. If a child is in a state of terror, their IQ can drop up to 50 points." -Dr. Bruce D. Perry Bruce D. Perry, M.D.,Ph.D. This information should get way more coverage

📈With 53% of people with learning disabilities and autism having experienced a #hatecrime in the last year, this #NationalHCAW we're proud to share our new free police officer training🚨 Find out more & share with your local #police force➡️ lght.ly/6kcgj5d #ImWithSam

Hey, so-called clever progressives: stop calling people “morons”, “retards”, “idiots” and “imbeciles”. It’s the language of hatred and eugenics. Not good.

Watching and learning from the Amazing ⁦Mark Brookes⁩ while he trains GPs. Brilliantly

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A new blog from Christian … please read and share. pubsandgigsandcake.weebly.com/blog/come-back…

Parents of disabled children and young people are constantly urged not make a fuss. But we know that the only way to achieve anything is to do so. Just one part of what’s so wrong with the system.

Does anyone remember a time when the DWP Christmas ‘Bonus’ was anything other than £10? We are 20 years in and I can’t…

Electricity now costs more in the UK than anywhere else in the world.

“You’re Making It Worse” Naomi Fisher   When a child is struggling at school and become reluctant to attend, their parents are given advice.  Most of it is about how to ignore their child’s distress.  1/

Excited to be on the way to the #GoodLives conference today. Can’t wait to hear what everyone’s been up to.

#GoodLives at Learning Disability England’s conference - finding out about how the history of learning disability was once written by medics, but now people with lived experience are taking charge of their history by research and through activist historian work. 💪

The NHS asks 'what's the matter with you?' and then tries to fix it. Good social care asks 'what matters to you?' and then works alongside us to be and do those things. To be valuable, the integration of health & social care will elevate the second question above the first.

‘Love’ x 0 ‘Rights’ x 0 ‘Inclusion’ x 0 ‘Belonging’ x 0 ‘Trust’ x 0 ‘Purpose’ x 0 ‘Identity’ x 0 ‘Hope’ x 0 So many #MissingWords #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters 3/3 rewritingsocialcare.blog/missing-words

CAMHS routinely deny treatment to children with mental health issues because they are autistic. Suicidal, self harming autistic children are being left to suffer. It is dangerous. It is senseless. It is discrimination. Please sign change.org/p/child-and-ad…

"People with learning disabilities need privacy and the freedom to live how they choose" Gary Bourlet speaks about why the 'Renting your own place' research and its new recommendations are so important rb.gy/bfiav York People First & The Parents Project My Life My Choice University of York University of Bristol

The Nazis, too, encouraged people to calculate the cost of keeping disabled people alive. School children were set exercises in estimating the economic cost of 'useless eaters'. This is a dark day, The Telegraph, and you should be ashamed.

#Oliverscampaign I am again in Facebook Prison Campaigning to get 100 000k signatures for The Oliver McGowan Mandatory training for Education has turned me into a Facebook criminal I need you more than ever to SIGN & SHARE Oliver’s petition 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6390…

This week is Learning Disability Week! At the CBF we support children, young people and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges, and their families. Hear from families by reading some of the stories on our website: challengingbehaviour.org.uk/news/?types=yo… #LDWeek