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Saba Salman: Court ruling shows fight is far from over

Opinion

People must be at the centre of their own support

In brief

Features

Our round-up of news from the world of learning disability

Cash to tackle and prevent crisis

Welfare rights

People on low incomes who have a financial shock can apply to a scheme that provides monetary help and builds local support so communities cope better in the long term. Charlie Callanan reports

Deprivation of liberty test recast

Law

The acid test on whether someone is deprived of liberty – if they are not free to leave and under continuous supervision – has been overturned by the supreme court, which says numerous issues should be considered. This will reduce safeguards and oversight, says Rebecca Chapman

When the words used say it all

Law

The language used in court can be disrespectful and derogatory to learning disabled people. The legal system should reflect on how it describes them, says, George Julian

Mary O’Hara: let’s take time out to appreciate frontline, local services

Opinion

While cuts and campaigns hog the headlines, we must not forget to recognise and praise those who do invaluable work to improve daily lives and promote opportunities

The even bigger picture

Interviews

The Oska Bright film festival has grown to an international scale. Kirsty Pentecost talks to Seán Kelly about what films can show us, scary movies, wild women and changing the world

Jan Walmsley: the voices of wartime women imagined

Opinion

Researchers discovered the stories of women during the First World War said to have a ‘mental deficiency’ and thought about what they might have said about their lives

A real home for life

Features

People often have no say in where and with whom they live. A project filmed personal stories to promote person-led housing and show what it can achieve. Chloe Umpleby and Ben McCay explain

Ian Goldsworthy: we are all a mystery to each other, swathed in our own fog

Opinion

My son’s thought processes can be difficult and even impossible for his family to understand. Yet none of us are purely the sum of what others know about us, nor do we know ourselves completely

We must see humanity in all of us

Books

What is perceived as different is not a flaw to be fixed but a truth central to our collective being, says Elly Chapple. If we do not pause to reflect and reconnect, we risk missing the humanity before us and, ultimately, each other

Unexpected detective

Arts

Crime caper meets film noir in this stylish thriller about a man who achieves his longed-for desire to be a detective – but the case is not what it seems. Simon Jarrett gets into Raymond Chandler mode

Celebrities put on the spot. Again

Arts

Blunt questioning leads to Lenny Henry engaging in awkward discussions while Nicola Sturgeon and Stephen Fry appear less candid in this second series. Simon Jarrett grabs the remote

The film and the fury

History

A TV film showing the reality of life for both residents and staff in long-stay institutions caused a public outcry and speeded up moves to close them down. Susanna Shapland tells the story

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