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3 Comment Safeguarding may be 19 Advocacy research: ‘with not for’ A
denying people warmth and friendship PhD researcher ensured his research
on advocacy would have people with
learning disabilities at its heart
6 Letters Open up more Paralympic
sports, questions remain over social
care plans, the scandal of Cawston 20 The man who went to bed for a year
Park and some good practice The effect of reaching midlife on
people with learning disabilities
receives little attention
Creating homes for
supported living, page 10 7 Welfare rights: being assessed for
ability to work Establishing limited
capability for work is complex and 22 Research round-up Good relationships
needs doing promptly with staff help people leave secure
units and people with severe disability
show agency
8 Legal: hope on challenging decisions
The Equality and Human Rights
Commission is holding an inquiry into 23 Editor’s diary A huge pool of talent is
challenging social care decisions eager to meet labour shortages, care
firms see people as commodities and a
refugee’s story is told without words
10 Building it right Property investors and
How Hannah Otoo got her
son out of hospital, page 14 care providers are coming together to
design and create accommodation for 24 When the past speaks back An archive
a range of supported living needs of residents and staff discussing the
closure of an institution raises issues
of care provision trends today
12 Cold comfort of safeguarding Has the
practice of safeguarding, designed to
protect people, become a form of 26 Sound inventions Young people
abuse itself? created both music and instruments to
keep them engaged in activity and
with others
14 From Accra and London with love
Linda Doherty, community Hannah Otoo worked with nurses to
champion, page 16 get her son home, and set up a special 27 Reviews Festivals, awards and landing
educational needs school in Ghana a part in a Spielberg production –
plenty has been happening in film for
people with learning disabilities
16 ‘I’ve done all I want’ Linda Doherty
talks about 50 years with the Elfrida
Society, being a community champion 28 Dancing though the pandemic
and a friend with a giant monkey Creative connection proved to be the
strength of a dance company during
and after pandemic restrictions
18 Welcome back to the new normal
Sara Pickard looks forward to live
Making electronic music, theatre, dances and travel – and 30 History: Brave New World: satire or
page 26 making more of a difference blueprint? Was Aldous Huxley’s novel
attacking or testing the idea of
‘defectives’ doing menial work?
Seán Kellly; Fiona Bailey Dancing through the
pandemic, page 28
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