We are looking for a disabled designer/illustrator who can help us bring our words into pictures, shout out to @Disconcertia our local arts consortium, if you know any local people who might be able to help … any suggestions greatly appreciated thank you😊

Welcome to the launch of our research report 📢

‘Lived Experiences of Black/Global Majority Disabled Pupils and their Families in Mainstream Education’

Over the next hour we’ll share related content and media🧵

Follow the conversation with #AllfieBlkR
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We're on Politics North on Sunday talking about what needs to change with #AccessibleHousing crisis in the North East.

Clue- it involves government taking measures to address grave and systematic violations of our human rights🤷GOV.UK

Catch it here:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Our Metro system in the North East is similarly disdainful.

Most folk will (rightly) turn up to the station and find out only then, that lift is out.

E.g. advice is to 'travel to the next station' which is either 1.4 or 2.7 miles- with some of the worst pavement surfaces.

Of all the issues to tackle, Care England, decide denying disabled people caffeinated drinks, is the cause to get behind.

Why not the falls from understaffing or
even the 18 preventable deaths of people with a learning disability or autism in care settings by choking?

A fully funded PhD studentship for disabled candidates. Focused on accessible transport design, practice, or policy. At Newcastle University.
ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f…

It's only 9 days until we elect the new #NorthEastMayor .

We spoke to 3 of the candidates (all were invited) about how they'll improve things for Disabled people in the North East.

Read all about it here:
differencenortheast.org.uk/campaigns-old/…

We need a long-term Disability Strategy, co-produced with Disabled people and our organisations, that tackles the root causes of our oppression and delivers fundamental reform and investment.
differencenortheast.org.uk/campaigns/disa…

Taxpayer money worth £37 billion was misappropriated on a broken test and trace system.

On average, every person in the UK is £7,000 worse off.

Attacking disabled people to distract from this economic mismanagement is unjust. fullfact.org/health/test-an….

Rishi continues to “undermine the human dignity” of disabled people.

His messaging is both deliberately damaging to the disabled community as well as a distraction from failing to respond to the needs of all people in the UK.
bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Rishi is attempting to distracting us from the government's failure to tackle increasingly long NHS waiting lists. Everyone in the UK is struggling to get a GP appointment, see a consultant or get a fair go at PIP tribunals.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

Rishi Sunak’s attack on disabled people as a distraction for his failures is emblematic of why the UN condemned the UK government on their ‘grave and systemic’ human rights abuses. bylinetimes.com/2024/03/11/uni…

SUNAK: 'I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have.'

Meanwhile:

The UN found that government policy has “undermined the human dignity” of disabled people, they also found disabled people are “demonised” by the government

Rishi? Respond?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…