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See #ProvidersUnite for a glimpse of why social care matters at all stages of life - and to the economy, communities and NHS. If you don't get the social/human augment then consider the organisations behind the campaign support 1.2m people , employ a 1.59m workforce (delivering £68.1bn in services)

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Social care: 'not a luxury...not an optional extra' but 'the means by which we affirm the intrinsic worth of every individual, ensuring that no one is left behind, no one is forgotten, and no one is stripped of their humanity'. #socialcare

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The chair of the National Care Association, Nadra Ahmed, said "It is inconceivable that politicians fail to understand that a lack of investment will impact heavily on both the NHS and local government"

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Maybe VIPs who can't fix a date won't ever need care. Social care: the thing that supports people's independence, the NHS pressure, family carers and the economy. Ignore the 'old person's hands' image - social care's vital for working age people too. #socialcare www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'you can do one simple thing to help us carers – listen and show empathy' #carer #sibling #disability

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Not a shocker that friends or colleagues suggest a parent (mother, but of course) gives up work - but a disability organisation? First we write off people with disabilities, then we stop their family members from contributing to society. #LearningDisability #autism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Women with learning disabilities often do not go for cervical screening, so a health organisation worked with women to create an accessible video on the procedure. Vanica Patel reports communitylivingmagazine.com/film-for-wom...

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Potential life-saving screenings and targets to boost take up: vital. Meanwhile, govt's scrapping a 75% annual health check target for learning disabled people - who die 20 yrs earlier than they should, with almost half these deaths deemed avoidable. Go figure. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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This looks both necessary and brilliant: '...how the concept of learning disabilities is a slippery one and how shifting categories have contributed to the 'othering' that has caused so much pain' #LearningDisability

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Western civilisation's saviour: someone attending the right-wingers gathering co-founded by Jordan Peterson and who compares her leadership to Trump’s, attacks taking the knee for BLM and says pronouns, DEI and climate activism are 'poison'. Lovely stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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“For more than 300 years we have had a gold-plated copyright regime but now the tech companies and the government are walking around saying it is unclear,” said Kidron. “Actually, it’s not unclear.” Ask your MP to speak up in favour of creators! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

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News. People with learning disabilities and autistic people in Scotland are still being held in institutions in breach of their human rights, according to a new report from Scotland’s human rights watchdog. www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/no-prog...

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The latest in @samwollaston.bsky.social's powerful series The Wait – meet Linda Colla the woman who was forced to pull her own teeth after waiting seven years for an NHS dental appointment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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It'd be nice if this stuff - social housing, health and care, schools - was fixed in our existing communities before we make new ones. 'Starmer’s plans to create “beautiful communities” with affordable homes, much-needed infrastructure, GP surgeries and schools' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Labels don't help, but a diagnosis gives people a chance of asking for the right support (even if actually getting that support's harder). 'Although it is not a magic wand, a diagnosis for us would make our family life and her life, more importantly, so much easier' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Big thanks if you shared or followed👇🏽our charity-run @communitylivingmagazine.com just got a bunch of new followers! Producing this title on equal citizenship for people and their allies is a labour of love for all involved. #LearningDisability #HumanRights #SocialCare communitylivingmagazine.com

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The Labour Party went into the election promising to reform discredited NHS contract fuelling current crisis. According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress by the new government to date. The BDA say its deeply concerned that the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress

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'We have also slowed down and become present, learning to celebrate small victories. We’ve been reminded to cherish the moments of clarity, no matter how fleeting, and to find joy in the simplest acts of care. We learnt to be patient when frustration bubbled up...' So much this.

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Reminder: if human rights, disability justice and learning disability are your bag, follow @communitylivingmagazine.com We start editing the new issue Monday; articles by a couple of new (to the magazine) amazing journalists and features on unique projects that show what's possible for inclusion.

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Just a reminder that this is a Labour minister talking. Politicians do interviews and often put issues into context and sometimes offer balance - but they absolutely know which words will make the headlines. How is this stigmatising language at all helpful? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A radio track earlier sparked a memory, sharing because: joy. Clothes store, Worthing, 2000s, my sister Raana sees a mannequin's head at the base of its half-dressed body. She stares at it, then at us, giggles and asks, deadpan: 'Where's your head at?' Genius. Everytime I hear that song...

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The moment that sparked this thoughtful piece seems an eon ago, but worth reading @maryohara1.bsky.social here on the need for greater understanding of learning disability and positive responses - amid the prevalence of stereotyping and hate crime. In the US and UK. #LearningDisability #HateCrime

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I know from experience as a child and as a parent that every school includes siblings - kids growing up with (or who've grown up with) a disabled brother or sister. Do share if it could help someone you know support such pupils, an overlooked group with unique support needs. #siblings #disability

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Sometimes I choose to read local news stories like this to feel better. And sometimes it works too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK in polite disagreement (about Trump effectively backing for ethnic cleaning and the potential breach of international laws). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This is my council. More cuts to adult and children’s social care. Citizens of Birmingham deserve better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Extraordinary @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Still 'not a priority at all levels to build the homes disabled people need' - and the impact this has on physical and mental health.

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On the local things learned that those elsewhere didn't: at my Sussex primary school - stoolball ('cricket in the air').

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There's a basic fact in this piece that can't be repeated enough: locking up people in long-term, secure, clinical and intense inpatient 'care' can be traumatic and makes them feel worse, not better. #LearningDisability #autism #socialcare

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A very informative piece making it clear why the NHS commitment to improve the health of people with #LearningDisabilities must be strengthened, not undermined. People 2× as likely to die from preventable causes & 4 times as likely to die from treatable causes

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The quality, accessibility & uptake of annual health checks for people with learning disabilities could be better. That is surely a reason to improve, not abolish, them, given the evidence that they do reduce mortality & the major inequalities. @dawnc05.bsky.social

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Local ICB insisted our surgery changed format of checks from a chat with known GP (during which did tests) to an hour-long appt with LD "specialist" that the patient had never met. Only 1 of the the 14 people with LD registered with the practice felt able to attend that kind of appointment.

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An example of shortsighted cuts to 'non-essential' charities that keep people from a health crisis or emergency care...which ends up costing more anyway. Only today I shared a report referring to @grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social work on health inequality. www.grapevinecovandwarks.org/grapevine-ne...

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Wales: one in four children in care are sent to live outside their home local authority and a further 7.5% are sent to live outside Wales.

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You don't need experience of the issues to see why health check targets for patients who have a learning disability might be useful. I'm sharing this piece again after reports this is among the goals to be scrapped (by the party of social justice). #healthcare bylinetimes.com/2024/10/21/t...

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New 📝 from me: For @theleaduk.bsky.social I spoke to shared owners who can't sell their high-spec flats because of a legal clause that means they shoulder ALL the risk when the housing market dips. Are these homes a "toxic asset"? You decide national.thelead.uk/p/toxic-asse...

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On the grim, false narratives being pushed and how 'humane solutions are not getting anything like the same airtime', really important reading: bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

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Please share this thread from @bristolshortstory.bsky.social I've put a number of starter packs in the chat, but there must be many more out there with possible entrants for this excellent short-story competition #booksky

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Seen Traitors' Alexander highlighting learning disability issues and the role of family advocates and carers? Do please take a peek at @sibs-uk.bsky.social A tiny but terrific outfit I'm v proud to be part of. Like all small charities, it punches relentlessly above its weight. www.sibs.org.uk

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Oh hi Big Society; localism forced by cuts. I remember asset transfers as complex, with different transfer models, management issues afterwards and concerns that publicly owned buildings were being sold back to a community...that pays for/'owns' them anyway. #localgov www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Very brilliant that @cmic-uk.bsky.social just got the go ahead to create a training microbrewery for adults with learning disabilities, so here's a reminder of @beckyrwhin.bsky.social's words in @communitylivingmagazine.com a year ago. #LearningDisability communitylivingmagazine.com/there-was-a-...

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Coming late to this news but HUGE congrats to all involved in the superb @cmic-uk.bsky.social training brewery. Also, this, from @beckyrwhin.bsky.social: 'We are so bloody minded...Nothing is going to stop us.' #LearningDisability #autism #inclusion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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