🐾 Blanket Appeal! 🐾 Could you help by donating any blankets to our centres? We can accept new and used blankets in good condition with no tears or holes 🙌 Unfortunately, we can’t accept pillows or duvets as the stuffing can be harmful to animals if they ingest it. 💜

The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) which Disability Rights UK co-lead release a response to the PM today after he announced a chilling set of reforms to force Disabled people back to work. Read and please share the statement here via this link: 👇👇 disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabilit…

The stated purpose of disability benefits is to compensate disabled people for the inevitable extra cost *of being disabled*. It's not intended to pay for medical treatment or routine living costs - we have the NHS and income-related benefits for that. 🧵theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Making mental health talking and other therapies easily and speedily accessible to all who need it, so many can recover and restart their lives is great, and once done you can look at those who aren't working who could be. Taking away vital support from people when they have

Are vulnerable patients destined to “choose” to die because we’re not willing to fund the care that might make their lives worth living? It's not a future dystopia - it's happening now. Do we care? My piece for Guardian Opinion on assisted dying. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Overpayment of PIP due to fraud had dropped to 0.0 per cent from 0.2 per cent the previous year. So why won't Sunak apologise? Important reporting from Disability News Service. Please mention to tories AND Labour canvassers. Show them the government's benefits deception matters.

We’ve had a number of enquiries lately from people worried about having a bumblebee ‘hive’ in their garden. ‘Are they dangerous?’ ‘Should I have them removed?’ ‘Will they be there forever?’ Here’s a quick bumblebee lifecycle thread to explain. Please #retweet for the #bees. 1/14

Just a reminder postal votes won't be sent out until after the deadline for applying for one - June 19. So the earliest you could receive it would be the 21st. If you are going to be away by then & not back by 4 July you should apply for a proxy vote.

If the Government can provide nine palaces for a single family of millionaires with servants, nannies and cooks, I’m sure they can provide social care free for the rest of us. #carersweek

Ok so I really need a job ASAP. I'm 16 and currently in care. And I have no money coming in. I'm a good lad I won't be any bother. Just looking t start working and making something of myself. Happy to do anything and happy to travel please someone help me out

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If these lime bikes were blocking MP’s from getting into parliament you’d be taking immediate action The Labour Party London Labour Liz Kendall Sir Stephen Timms Disability Unit Discrimination against disabled people. Get it sorted #DisabledPeopleDemand

Check out our new blog on the announcement of emergency works at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh and why this is further proof we need a new eye hospital now. ✍️Show your support and add your name to the petition, today! ➡️sightscotland.org.uk/articles/news/…

One of four free suicide prevention modules - available to anyone anywhere #SuicidePreventionIsEveryonesBusiness

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This Hogmanay, we're asking residents in our local area to refrain from setting off fireworks, following the death of our red panda kit Roxie on bonfire night. As always, we will do all we can to protect our animals from fireworks, including keeping them indoors and providing

We’re introducing a 12-month pilot scheme to extend free rail travel on ScotRail services to companions of blind and partially sighted passengers. Before the pilot is introduced later this year, we want to hear your views. Have your say before 28 Feb ➡️ forms.office.com/e/tT7ZuMNkax

Today Kaukab Stewart MSP launched a pilot scheme to provide free rail travel for companions of blind and partially sighted passengers. It will apply on all ScotRail train journeys across Scotland from 1 April. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4hHrOUD Sight Scotland | Sight Scotland Veterans

Ahead of today’s assisted dying Bill debate, I thought I’d do a thread of FALSE FACTS. You know… campaigning soundbites, PR spin. That come up again and again. And are persuasive… but wrong.