Making sense of behaviour in education, social care & healthcare. Practical, ethical strategies that reduce distress, build confidence. Without blame or labels
Worcestershire, England
Joined January 2009
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Come on!!! We’re over the 80k mark. Let’s push like mad now n show them who they’re dealing with! #parentCarers rock!! 👇👇👇👇
Amazing work everyone. Tee-Jay’s petition to protect SEND legal rights has made it to 80,000. We have until 14th October to get to 100,000. Together we can do this!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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DSLs in #schools face increasing #safeguarding pressure yet remain the only professionals in child protection without supervision. Sara Alston on what #supervision is not & why reflective, non judgemental supervision must become essential, not optional: ow.ly/veA050ZOL3A
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Please repost for all the cleaning staff who are working across the NHS today.
They are a huge part of the NHS family and it would be impossible to keep patients safe without them.
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Hey guys it’s Friday again and you know what that means- time to check those important bits. Go on give them a roll #testicularcancerawareness please repost and help save a life 😊
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Our emotions are deeply rooted in our biology. So, understanding the impact of trauma,brain function & the nervous system should be the requirements for training in all educational settings.This would support schools in understanding & responding to trauma,biology & behaviour.
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This horrific abuse at Whorlton Hall was shown seven years ago today. Meanwhile, #NothingHasChanged.
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Dysregulated."
This language helps adults & children build awareness of their nervous system around triggers & internal emotional states.
Dysregulation is a typical part of development while young people are still learning to express their emotions in healthy ways.
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TODAY IT IS 15 YEARS SINCE WINTERBOURNE VIEW:
WHY ARE THE NUMBERS STILL RISING?
Today, May 31st, we mark the 15th anniversary of the Winterbourne View scandal. At the time, the world promised "never again." Yet, as someone who survived three years of detention in similar settings, Rightful Lives admin, Alexis Quinn, is here to tell you that for many, "never again" was a hollow promise.
The data from 2026 is staggering:
🚨 A 152% increase in the detention of autistic people since 2015.
🚨 A "Stuck" Population: Those with learning disabilities are still being detained for 10, 15, or 20 years.
🚨 Ongoing Abuse: From Edenfield to St Andrew's and the horrors exposed in the Patient 11 podcast, the culture of locked wards remains broken.
The Legislative Stalling Point: While the new Mental Health Act has received Royal Assent, the Government is hiding behind a "switch on" clause. They refuse to enact these life-saving changes until "sufficient" community support is in place—yet they have provided no roadmap, no funding, and no definition of what "sufficient" actually looks like.
The Risk of Inaction: Without a community roadmap, we aren't "transforming care"; we are just shifting the trauma. We are seeing a rise in "trans-institutionalisation," where autistic people are pushed into forensic pathways, the criminal justice system, or left homeless in unregulated, restrictive settings.
It is too much to ask for a home, not a hospital?
At Rightful Lives, we are demanding an urgent, funded roadmap for community support. No more "learning lessons." We need action.
Watch our video to hear why we cannot wait any longer.
#Winterbourne15 #RightfulLives #MentalHealthReform #AutismAdvocacy #HomesNotHospitals #Patient11 #HumanRights
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Neuroscience shows us that co-regulation is established through connection & connection is established through felt safety. It’s not just emotional,it’s biological.
In a nutshell,”regulation is relational,” & you need to build the relational bridge to make it possible.
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A street artist draws a work of art: "the invisibility of poverty." A masterpiece. The artist’s name is Kevin Lee!
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Prediction of anxiety in children aged 7–12 during preoperative anaesthesia evaluation – a prospective observational study
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In the UK, there are:
2.4 million men aged 65 to 67
5.5 million women aged 60 to 67
These people would all have been getting the Old Age Pension if the retirement age had not been increased. THIS is why more people of working age are claiming sickness & #disability #benefits.
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Our latest research highlights the challenges to getting care and what can be done to make NHS services work better for survivors of domestic abuse.
healthwatch.co.uk/blog/2026-…
ALT A blue infographic. Healthwatch logo bottom right. Text says What are survivors of domestic abuse telling us about their NHS care?
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In educational setting,when we don't understand the science behind pupils dysregulated states & what condition their nervous system is in shaped by early life conditions & experiences we make matters worse.
When we support the nervous system first,behaviour often changes.🧠🌱
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A new research programme led by Cardiff University is set to address one of the most persistent ethical and practical challenges in health research -ensuring people who cannot give informed consent are not excluded from studies that could improve car
cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/3036…
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NEW POST: The DfE's response to the consultation legal case shows it doesn't care about your views of the SEND Tribunal—it’s already decided to kneecap it. For the sake of our children with SEND, we must not accept it specialneedsjungle.com/gover…
ALT image shows An image that shows people in smart suits, one of them a woman with blonde shoulder length hair and another with an auburn short bob—around a table looking like they're enjoying destroying a judicial scale and hammer and wig--a metaphor for destroying justice. Behind them is a picture window and on the outside of the window, looking through it, stand some parents in casual dress--like jeans and jumpers, holding children. They are looking horrified, sad, and upset at what they can see
