thesmallplaces.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Social Care Law and Policy, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies. Socio-legal research on: disability, legal capacity, human rights, sovereignty, governmentality and other stuff. Small Places Blog.
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Phew!!
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Thanks so much Gus!
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Interesting, but it can be both. One is about the state within the international order, the other about what happens within the state, internal governance.
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Yes, hopefully so!
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It really is.
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hi Sam! Good to meet you. I've actually found that quite a few peers do understand the issues, I just think it's a political nightmare to solve the problems.
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Which is probably why... even though EVERYONE knows this is a risk for learning disabled people and people with autism, it's not (yet) been addressed in the Bill...
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And here's a paper I wrote explaining why the interface is such a gnarly political mess - it's a tangle of stereotypes and stigma at work, which nobody has a neat solution to www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
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Here's a more technical explanation of why committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...
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At the risk of sounding a bit trumpety (hopefully not Trumpy) here's the bit where I explained why if you don't address the interface between the MCA and the MHA, people taken 'out' of the MHA could end up detained in the same places under the MCA instead committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
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I teach them about the TLAP version, and there's also various co-production scales/tools in mental health, inclusive research and so on that are quite interesting.
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Brilliant, thanks!
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Thanks! I'll check it out
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Ha! I can think of people I'd send that to!!
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Ooh those acronyms haven't hit our school yet!
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Argh! We had missed collections three weeks running for a while, partly because of general bin problems in the city, but also because of parking across corners blocking access (which has got so much worse with the new student developments). Hope yours gets sorted soon...
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Do you know, my daughter's school is amazing at teaching them how to write. She knows all about topic sentences, how to structure a report into paragraphs. They genuinely learn things that I don't think I was ever taught and am still learning now!!
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Will check it out!
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That sounds amazing!! I'm running a seminar on how to write a paragraph this Friday, and geekily quite excited about it. It's a microcosm of writing a well structured and well argued essay.
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Brilliant, thanks!
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Was it WaPo?!
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I also wonder what happens in cases like the 'Sparkles' case in the Court of Protection where someone has made a failed suicide attempt and is refusing life-saving interventions (e.g. dialysis) - would that constitute terminal illness for the purposes of the Bill?
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I respectfully disagree with Tom Shakespeare though - I do think that if a person with anorexia is effectively dying through lack of nutrition, then that could be categorised as terminal illness, and it is not 'only' because of mental disorder but the other physical disorders linked to that.
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They did have evidence from Tom Shakespeare and Miro Griffiths though, so not completely without representation of different perspectives from disability community
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Rather intriguing to see a hard-right Tory MP citing the CRPD and asking why there isn't better representation of DDPOs at the Public Bill Committee. It's a fair point, but I'd like to see them raise it in other contexts too!
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Love @capacitylaw.bsky.social's evidence: 'This is not a healthcare decision but an existential decision.'
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I know the technicalities of this stuff is probably the least exciting to campaigners and bioethicists, but the logistics of planned court orders in this Bill is quite something.
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Grimpact...
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It's a beautiful document. I'm looking forward it because I'm teaching about it
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Yes, horrendous for those staff and students on their courses.