NOW POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE – Our Spring Issue articles
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Community Living Editor Simon Jarrett previews the latest issue of the magazine. 
Sean Kelly’s interview with Liz Tilly: – from a special school teacher to starting Options for Life and then developing Building Bridges. – one of those amazing individuals – whether professionals or some family carers who make things happen
Clare Palmer and Virginia Bovell ‘How inclusive is the learning disability community? ‘ ask whether self-advocates could do more to include people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and be more realistic about what they can achieve?
Sally Warren and Jo Giles – Act together to uphold human rights about using a practical guide to the Reach standards for supported living helping ensure human rights, when defending them seems increasingly urgent as supported living perhaps is at risk of becoming a one-size-fits-all model. 
Simon Jarrett’s ‘The trouble with rights in reality’ considers people’s rights (which may be relevant in the current situation)
Simon Duffy in ‘The Language of rights’ suggests human rights discussion is not enough but ‘restoring the place of the genuinely local neighbourhood community will be essential’. (Maybe in this difficult period due to the impact of the Corona Virus, there may be a chance for neighbourhoods to re-discover who’s in them as we see neighbours and local charities looking to who need help and who can help).
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Letters from readers:
our regular welfare rights article on universal credits ;
our social care law article on using the Ombudsman – closed during the Covid but VERY relevant going forward once they are back;
Sara Pickard’s ‘Ten years bearing a torch’ tells how she has championed inclusion;
‘Meet the leaders‘ on Dimensions Learning Disability and Autism Leaders List, are all Campaigners, creatives and entrepreneurs, who make society better for all;
Self-employment route to work by 2 self-advocates;
Celebrating the ‘Strawberry Fields’ project in Liverpool with the gates of Strawberry Field open again helping people find work;
Research: self-building a life and a community- looks at how people can have more of a say;
Diary: the rapid, wrong conclusions – Simon Jarrett’s opinion piece points out that the horrific case of a man who threw a small child from the balcony means just like other people there can be mental illness or other reasons for such behaviour, – and tells us about ‘John’s Crazy Socks’;
Innovation in Hard Times – Jo Adshead’s report on the big topics at the social care and health commissioners’ conference in Derbyshire;
Hannah McCreesh on people’s access anxiety –make showtime for everyone with an app allowing people to find out how disability friendly a venue is and post their own reviews;
Film: rolling out the red carpet for all: Tracey Harding considers the neglected disability angle of the debate about the lack of diversity at TV and film awards ceremonies;
Book reviews: No 2 problems A dog’s story helps with poo problems; using responsive communication with sensory signals;
History: when mass murder was social policy Nazi eugenics were based on ‘improvement through exclusion’, with no place for disabled people….
