Promoting Equality and Inclusion for people with disabilities: In Careers, Society and as Students: In School, Higher Educ and Profess-training/Medical Educ
UK - International
Joined June 2013
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"I just want him to come home. "Mark was never ill, never off school, never off work and he had never been in hospital. Now he's a crippled wreck of a man with his bones sticking through his ribs, unable to walk"
#wentindepression #fewweeks #11yearslater
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
Poverty is harming children’s capacity to learn and it’s getting worse, suggests a survey of teachers. “I try to teach my phonics group as I am giving others cereal to eat,” one teacher told researchers. > I think “Make Poverty History” needs resurrecting ow.ly/whIq30oqfUy
Disability Inclusion retweeted
I’m going to just say this quick: disabled people don’t owe you answers to your questions about them. It’s not on us to teach you. If you ask a disabled person a question about their disability & they don’t feel like answering you, walk away.
Disability Inclusion retweeted
DWP’s latest confession on safety failings and benefit deaths: ‘We keep no record of complaints linked to deaths’
#JusticeForJodey #DWP #ICE #FreedomOfInformation #BenefitDeaths
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
“My child was given to me deaf, so we all sign at home. I don’t believe you should ever force a deaf child to be oral.”
- a hearing parent during an IEP meeting
Disability Inclusion retweeted
I will never ever forget how disabled kids have been treated by this Government, I will never stop until every kid in my son's class has an equal chance at success as the kids of those who sit on the benches opposite to me. What if this were your child?
Disability Inclusion retweeted
Saddened to hear of the death of Mike Oliver. Not only did he help to change the way we think about disability, he also helped establish disability studies as an academic discipline. We all all owe him a huge debt. – at Glasgow, Scotland
Disability Inclusion retweeted
#DWP failed for years to meet legal duties on #accessible information, says judge disabilitynewsservice.com/14… via @johnpringdns
Disability Inclusion retweeted
Note how often, and in how many different situations, disability is assumed to involve cognitive impairment and loss of agency. @Emily_Ladau on what it's really like to fly as a wheelchair user. cnn.com/travel/article/airpl…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
💥NEW - DWP designing tool to trawl claimants medical records.
Now the #DWP want their medically untrained staff to interpret your FULL medical records.
Doctors have raised concerns that this will lead to patients coming to harm.
Please READ/LIKE/SHARE
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
DWP slip out today that they owe disability benefits to 30,000more people than anticipated, averaging £6000 each AND around 20,000 (TWENTY THOUSAND) people have died waiting:
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
More on the call for a Royal Commission into abuse of people living with disability.
Bill Shorten: "There is no more unexamined corner of the life of Australia than the abuse and violence experienced by people with a disability.” theage.com.au/national/short…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
Fury As Nurses Offered Private Healthcare Perk To Become DWP Benefits Assessors huffp.st/0Q5fA0w
Disability Inclusion retweeted
The @ITV diversity & inclusion meeting today covered our campaign for a minister for disabled children & families, intervention for new parents of disabled children, black history, filming ideas around beautiful diversity & pushing content for online diverse stories. Wow
Disability Inclusion retweeted
My child is capable of getting 10 GCSEs. Too academic for Special School, deemed too autistic for mainstream. At home since 2017. So what do I do? Watch her MH in decline whilst we wait for a school? Families are torn apart by this situation.
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
How is this allowed to happen? Disabled people struggling to survive. The poor being thrown out on the street. And @10DowningStreet Gives nearly a million pounds to a terrorist. WTF is going on. No legal aid for any of us. I am astounded. #Tory #GTTO #JC4PM2019
"Jailed Al-Qaeda chief who 'had links to 7/7 London bombers' gets £800,000 in legal aid to appeal his conviction"
YET NO LEGAL AID FOR #50sWomen who have WORKED and PAID IN for over 45 years!
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Disability Inclusion retweeted
19-year-old Israeli Paralympic swimmer sets world record haaretz.com/israel-news/spor…
Disability Inclusion retweeted
Claire Fox's views on @bbcradio4 about self-harm are utterly abhorrent. Describing it as "attention seeking" & suggesting that talking about the issue encourages the behaviour. Completely unsubstantiated by any medical expertise: Why are the @BBC platforming her vile opinions?