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3 Comment The reach of celebrities 19 Whatever happened to policy?
makes their support a force for good Without policy, where are the
reference points, the drive, the
ambition? What has happened to it?
6 Letters Make fun possible after
lockdown, equality commission needs
to do its job, and problems persist 10 20 ‘We lost both people we support and
years after Winterbourne View scandal staff. We had to find scarce PPE and
deal with ever-changing guidance’
Edel Harris talks about her first year as
Learn Makaton with Mencap chief executive
Lucinda, page 11 7 Welfare rights: help to claim and
manage money How advice workers,
friends and family can act on
someone’s behalf if they need support 22 Research round-up Lockdown brings
with their benefit claims. opportunities, vegetarians feel isolated
and a major lifestyle influence is
neglected in research
8 Legal: perils of mental health law
reforms Proposals could increase the
risk of people with learning disabilities 23 At the front of the queue for once
being detained in hospitals When you just can’t wait for your
vaccine, Richard Dawkins fails to
explain his logic and everyone gets a
George has a new life out
of the institution, page 12 10 Life in lockdown and beyond sporting chance
Learning Disability England has been
at the forefront of self-advocacy
throughout lockdown 24 The injustice around care charges
Anger is rising over unfairness around
care charges after a court case showed
11 Supported living? Who knows? the discrimination at their heart
Supported living may not be what is it
claimed to be, a ‘Covid blanket’ could
be hiding service failures and Lucinda’s 26 From Twitter to Today A photo of a
marvellous Makaton lessons father and adult son went viral with
positive and pithy responses – and
Playing as equals on the ended up on Radio 4
same team, page 16 12 Real life in a real home Life is better
after the despair of inpatient units, as
this story of a young man building a 27 Reviews A minor character becomes
new life in the community shows the main suspect and a prenatal
dilemma is handled sensitively on
mainstream TV
14 Katie Price: ‘I will show disability
should be accepted in everything’
Katie Price is battling against internet 28 Professionals need to see the
trolls and to bring learning disability humanity beyond the diagnosis A
Makaton with Lucinda/YouTube; Mick Massey: rubgy; Nicola Selby: dance
issues to public attention reflection on Sara Ryan’s books about
her family’s fight for justice and how
Dedicated to dance, the right help makes a huge difference
page 18 16 All on the same team People with and
without disabilities play sports
together under standard rules, thanks 30 History: ‘idiocy’ in early modern
to a global charity England Were so-called ‘idiots’ abused
and hidden away before the asylum
came to their rescue? What sort of
18 A life in dance Creative use of direct lives did they really lead?
payments gives a dancer control and
makes her life an extraordinary one
Baptism of fire for Mencap
chief Edel Harris, page 20
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