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3 Comment Covid-19 limits on liberty 20 Individual ways to community life A
give a small taste of institutional life worker describes how targeted support
keeps people out of institutions and
helps them live as they wish
6 Letters The perilous cult of charisma,
needs come second to budgets,
cowardly commissioners, mercenary 21 Closer while distanced Friendships
private hospitals and inspectors put were strengthened during lockdown
providers first through a cinema club, online discos, a
pen pal scheme and art displays
When support at night
gets too difficult, page 8
7 Welfare rights: support under
Covid-19 – an update There have been 22 A Life Worthy of Life competition The
changes to financial assistance, winning entries by student learning
including to disability benefits disability nurses who wrote about
when they promoted a person’s rights
8 Legal: when providing night-time
support gets too much Family carers 24 Personal stories must be heard During
will benefit if they make a good case the pandemic, people with learning
for themselves backed by evidence disabilities are shown in the media as
victims – a group is changing this
Moving in with the
family, page 12 10 How I’m coping in the crisis Sara
Pickard was enjoying theatre 25 ‘Don’t ever call us unskilled again!’
rehearsals and getting to grips with her Workers battle, often unrecognised, to
new job – then coronavirus struck get the best for those they support. A
hidden workforce speaks out
11 Building a different society Difficult
lessons from the pandemic come with 26 Research: when family members grow
hope in new economic models and older As more people with learning
stronger communities disabilities are living longer, pressures
arise for them and their families
What home really means, 12 Part of the family A mother feared for
page 14 her adult son, who needed regular 27 Parents struggle with lockdown life
support. Then her daughter’s family Unaware of support, parents with
– with four children – stepped in learning disabilities have been deemed
neglectful and had children put in care
14 Right to a real home The #right2home
campaign, led by self-advocates, aims 28 A killer role A care worker falls to his
to end assessment and treatment death – was it an accident? Actor
scandals once and for all Tommy Jessop tells us about being the
star of crime thriller Innocence
16 Potential into reality An anthology of
Baroness Sheila Hollins, first-person stories by trailblazers who 29 Stepping into the light Review of
page 18 define and achieve success on their Saba Salman’s Made Possible; plus
own terms and challenge stereotypes a forthcoming collection of first-person
coronavirus stories
18 Meeting our friend in the Lords
Psychiatrist, campaigner, mother, 30 History: from sidelined to expert
publisher and activist – Baroness storytellers The movement to record
Sheila Hollins is an influential ally the history of learning disability with
firsthand accounts
Targeted work keeps
people at home, page 20
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