If you’re in wales please go and give support. Rightful Lives #right2home Stripped of Human Rights #stolenlives

We’re seeking experienced Associate Tutors to support learners on our Reducing Restrictive Practices qualifications.

If you’re an experienced tutor committed to restraint reduction, we would love to hear from you. Find out more and apply at bit.ly/RRPAssocTutor

Towards a Gloriously Ordinary Life - there are limited spaces left at the #socialcarefuture conference 📣

Join Learning Disability England in supporting the #socialcarefuture vision as we come together to share, learn and co-create...

Book your place today: tinyurl.com/454m6ubb

We got it

The first Statutory public inquiry in mental health history

Alexis talks about the one nurse who gave her a hug. 'You get so caught up in risk you forget people's humanness. Stop looking at the difference in the risk and focus on people as humans' 💯 powerful from Alexis Quinn Unbroken 👏👏 #TraumaInformed23 💜

News. The government has announced it will launch a national investigation into safety issues at mental health inpatient care settings this October.

learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/government-ann…
#MentalHealth

Saba Salman Community Living Magazine We are holding an event to shed light on abuse of people with learning disabilities in Assessment and Treatment units, and look at how to bring about change. Please share.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/ldn-london-s…

But Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, you make no mention of the 2000+ autistic people and people with learning disabilities who are stuck in psychiatric hospitals because there is no community support for them. What is The Labour Party’s policy on this issue?

Speaking at the PBS Conference, Alexis Quinn and Dr Tallyn Gray discuss the fact that psychological restraint (aka informal coercion) has no place in care and that Alexis’s PBS was inherently psychologically restrictive.

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Dear Keir Starmer
Please could you let us know what The Labour Party will do to provide the right support in the community for autistic people and people with learning disabilities?
What will you do to close abusive hospital beds?
Asking for a lot of people.

Remember Dannielle from Channel 4 Dispatches?
It’s her birthday today.
And the anniversary of being raped in Littlebrook Hospital.
She is also still in a psychiatric hospital.
So we are sharing her poem of courage again.
Please watch if you feel able 👇CW rape

youtu.be/91PdD_eWckg

I have so much to say re #WhorltonHall trial, but I'll save it until after defendants found guilty are sentenced in early July. I need some space from it, time to think and reflect.

So to end for now, in this thread I'll list the proven charges:

#LearningDisability #Autism
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In our latest video, we talk to Richard Butchins about his landmark #Dispatches documentary Locked Away: Our Autism Scandal. A really insightful watch…

youtu.be/E3c1m1cvXm0

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-653880…

Powerful, by John Harris on this enduring human rights scandal, abuse and neglect.

It's about respect, says My Life My Choice's Pam.

Instead, apathy, inaction and people profiting from an institutional system that's meant to have been phased out.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Whorlton Hall Prosecution – 18 and 19 April 2023 georgejulian.co.uk/2023/04/19/who…

The defence case for Darren Lawton. It's taken 7hrs to write this up after court adjourned at 1pm today. With thanks to those crowdfunding my reporting chuffed.org/project/openju… #whorltonhall #cygnet #autism

I used a debate in Parliament to question the Government about the abuse of autistic people & people with learning disabilities in inpatient settings.
📽️ You can watch the debate in full here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/03…

📔 And you can read it here:

hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-0…