“I wouldn’t change my flat for anything.” Is there scope for more people with learning disabilities to rent their own homes?

Funded by NIHR School for Social Care Research in partnership LDEngland this video provides an overview of the findings.

📽️housinglin.org.uk/News/I-wouldnt… youtube.com/watch?v=b4Da0O…

New! Tory-Zero (Rishi's Version)

If you'd like to buy us a drink to celebrate with on July 5th, you can support us at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy , we really appreciate it. #generalelection #rishisunak #conservatives

The power is in your hands.

Let’s end the chaos and rebuild Britain.

Vote for change. Vote Labour on Thursday 4 July.

Fantastic Third Advocacy Arts Session today 🖍️Stephen Lee Hodgkins🔋 …elscottsadvocacynewspage.blogspot.com/2024/05/third-…

How many filing cabinets spew out all those EHCPs those care plans those health assessments those DRE applications those DWP assessments those forms ? How many forms did you fill in today? How much bureaucracy ? #UnpaidCare

THREAD - I made a zine of my MSc dissertation on disability representation in film. It is a very text heavy image post, so if you want a more accessible format, send me a message and I can email you the PDF.

Until they sort social care it ain’t gonna happen

People with disabilities have sex too – so why do some doctors think otherwise? theconversation.com/people-with-di… via The Conversation

How can we identify disability in the ancient world and what does this mean for our history writing?

Alexandra F. Morris (Dr. Alexandra F. Morris) explores the evidence that disabled people existed, thrived and were incorporated into society in ancient Egypt.
historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-his…

Please join us for Disability Advocacy In York At New Earswick Folk Hall on Monday 24 June 2024 between 10am and 3pm. If you have something to say please do come along. We will discuss Are Things Getting Better or Worse for People with Learning Difficulties?. 🖍️Stephen Lee Hodgkins🔋

Today sees the launch of the Good Lives Manifesto 2024. The needs and priorities of people with a #LearningDisability should and must be included by their MPs and governments.
Share the Good Lives Manifesto and help to make #GoodLives a reality.
➡️tinyurl.com/mr27c84r

Public Open Exhibition 2024: Calling all UK based *disabled visual artists! We want the best 2D contemporary art by or for learning disabled, neurodivergent, & disabled artists! Prizes, awards & the chance to exhibit at LEVEL! bit.ly/VisArtsCallOut
#OpenCall #DisabilityArts

NSUN is a mental health charity, but for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , and on other awareness days, we’ll be quiet. It doesn’t speak to us, or to many of our members.

Mental Health Awareness Week is about awareness raising. But of what, and to what end?

nsun.org.uk/news/why-nsun-…

Press release | Research into lived experience of Black/Global Majority Disabled pupils and their families uncovers systemic injustice and intersectional erasure in mainstream education
#AllfieBlkR
tinyurl.com/8j8cwj5

Labour WIN: Congratulations to David Skaith the new Labour Mayor for York and North Yorkshire🌹

Pupils at a London special school were ‘tortured’ in “calming rooms”, a leaked report shows. But some staff shown on CCTV hitting & kicking pupils, many non-verbal, and leaving them in their urine, are still employed there.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

(1/2) Read our analysis of the Government's latest attacks on our rights. PIP is an essential benefit that we rely on for some of the extra costs of being Disabled. We are fighting back against these proposals, which will only happen if ...
inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-…
#CRDP24

If I am fortunate to be elected as Mayor for York and North Yorkshire this Thursday I will support our high streets with my ‘Mayors High Street Fund’.

As a shop owner myself, I know how challenging it is right now, but I have plan to invest and rejuvenate all our high streets

Thank you for this statement of solidarity Debbie