Everyone needs to go out and have fun after lockdown – so make it happen
As lockdown restrictions ease, we’ve written to every local authority social care director to change inflexible support provision that leaves far too many adults with a learning disability unable to enjoy the things they want to do: https://tinyurl. com/939hfr52
Stay Up Late
@StayUpLateUK, via Twitter
Corporate comment puts institution into the community
Out and about as a chaplain finding myself quite cross. A young woman with learning disabilities is accompanied by a care worker wearing a t-shirt with a company logo. She’s “accessing the community” – care speak for being out. Way to institutionalise someone within the community.
Revd Jacqui T
@RevdJacquiT, via Twitter
Equality commission needs to put pressure on the government…
“The government will commit to providing each patient with a date for discharge or, where this is not appropriate, a clear explanation of why and a plan to move them closer towards being ready for discharge into the community”
(Department of Health and Social Care, November 2019).
@ehrc why do you still believe them?
Rightful Lives
@RightfulLives, via Twitter
… we need action not yet more reviews…
All people with learning disabilities seem to get is review after flippin’ review!
nb
@nb87120292, via Twitter
… and learning disabled people always seem the least important…
Always at the back of the queue. If this was any other “marginalised group ”there’d be riots – the way people with learning disabilities are treated in this country.
Mr Ben
@MadeinBedlam, via Twitter
… which lets the commission of the hook
And if it were any other marginalised group @EHRC would have done something by now
Julie Newcombe
@TwittleyJules, via Twitter
Ten years after Winterbourne View, here are six practical suggestions…
It’s 10 years since #Winterbourne. The Learning Disability Consortium has published six ways @WelshGovernment can ensure people with learning disabilities in residential accommodation are safe and protected from abuse: https://www.ldw.org.uk/is-there-a-winterbourne-in-wales/.
Learning Disability Wales
@LDWales, via Twitter
… but little has changed …
It’s been 10 years since #Panorama exposed the horrific torture of learning disabled people in Winterbourne View – 10 years in which so little has changed for thousands of disabled people subject to abuse in the care of and funded by the state. Ten lost years. Some disabled people have been incarcerated for longer than a decade. Ten years of broken political promises… Three and a half billion quid to lock up innocent people. Ten years of those in power saying “well it’s difficult”. The only possible conclusion to draw is that the state funding abuse and torture of certain types of disabled people is just not important enough to change. Somehow, society shrugs and is OK with this. Ten years is a long time… the world has changed so much for us all. But imagine how long that 10 years has beenfor those locked away in assessment and treatment units.
Bendy Girl
@BendyGirl, via Twitter
… and budgets and power are to blame
#Winterbourne10 – much more than 10 years. Over 3,000 people in inpatient units on any given day. As @BendyGirl says, it’s budgets and power. System tinkering, repeated fail. People collaboratives, not provider collaboratives, everywhere.
Chris Hatton
@chrishattoncedr, via Twitter
Parliamentary group will be a voice
I welcome the All Party Parliamentary Group for Down syndrome. We need a voice to speak up for ourselves and make sure we have equal chances in life. We are the only people in the UK where people try to end our lives before we are born just because we have Down syndrome.
Tommy Jessop
@tommyjessop, via Twitter
