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Kate Chate retweeted
This week is Learning Disability Week! At the CBF we support children, young people and adults with severe learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges, and their families. Hear from families by reading some of the stories on our website: challengingbehaviour.org.uk/…
#LDWeek
ALT Text reads: "Learning Disability Week 2023, 19-25 June, #LDWeek" with the Mencap logo
Kate Chate retweeted
#Oliverscampaign
I am again in Facebook Prison
Campaigning to get 100 000k signatures for The Oliver McGowan Mandatory training for Education has turned me into a Facebook criminal
I need you more than ever to SIGN & SHARE Oliver’s petition 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Kate Chate retweeted
The Nazis, too, encouraged people to calculate the cost of keeping disabled people alive. School children were set exercises in estimating the economic cost of 'useless eaters'.
This is a dark day, @Telegraph, and you should be ashamed.
Kate Chate retweeted
"People with learning disabilities need privacy and the freedom to live how they choose"
Gary Bourlet speaks about why the 'Renting your own place' research and its new recommendations are so important rb.gy/bfiav
@people_york @mylifemychoice1 @UniOfYork @BristolUni
ALT A house
Kate Chate retweeted
CAMHS routinely deny treatment to children with mental health issues because they are autistic. Suicidal, self harming autistic children are being left to suffer. It is dangerous. It is senseless. It is discrimination. Please sign
change.org/p/child-and-adole…
Kate Chate retweeted
The NHS asks 'what's the matter with you?' and then tries to fix it.
Good social care asks 'what matters to you?' and then works alongside us to be and do those things.
To be valuable, the integration of health & social care will elevate the second question above the first.
#GoodLives at Learning Disability England’s conference - finding out about how the history of learning disability was once written by medics, but now people with lived experience are taking charge of their history by research and through activist historian work. 💪
Excited to be on the way to the #GoodLives conference today. Can’t wait to hear what everyone’s been up to.
Kate Chate retweeted
“You’re Making It Worse”
@naomicfisher
When a child is struggling at school and become reluctant to attend, their parents are given advice. Most of it is about how to ignore their child’s distress. 1/
Does anyone remember a time when the DWP Christmas ‘Bonus’ was anything other than £10? We are 20 years in and I can’t…
Kate Chate retweeted
Parents of disabled children and young people are constantly urged not make a fuss. But we know that the only way to achieve anything is to do so. Just one part of what’s so wrong with the system.
Kate Chate retweeted
A new blog from Christian … please read and share. pubsandgigsandcake.weebly.co…
Watching and learning from the Amazing @MarkBrookes66 while he trains GPs. Brilliantly
Kate Chate retweeted
Hey, so-called clever progressives: stop calling people “morons”, “retards”, “idiots” and “imbeciles”.
It’s the language of hatred and eugenics. Not good.
Kate Chate retweeted
📈With 53% of people with learning disabilities and autism having experienced a #hatecrime in the last year, this #NationalHCAW we're proud to share our new free police officer training🚨
Find out more & share with your local #police force➡️ lght.ly/6kcgj5d
#ImWithSam
Kate Chate retweeted
"When a child is in a state of fear, their functional IQ can drop up to 40 points. If a child is in a state of terror, their IQ can drop up to 50 points."
-Dr. Bruce D. Perry
@BDPerry
This information should get way more coverage
Kate Chate retweeted
@SENDShowUK Dame Christine Lenehan tells us that if we could harness the passion, the power,the advocacy of parents into our SEND systems, we would spend less time seemingly at war with them…..