Lisa Perry
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Even worse when you consider the sheer number of times the powers that be were told about St Andrew’s and the number of years this has been going on for.
There are hospital scandals and then there’s this. Where will they find services to meet the needs of 280 vulnerable, and probably scared, people that will ensure safety, proper care, dignity and respect? Unbelievable failure in safeguarding and oversight
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This makes for uncomfortable reading from @RoyLilley today roughly one specialist nurse for every 430 people with a learning disability, meaning… … one solo nurse looking after the equivalent of two thirds of the patients in an average district general hospital @jimgblair
a system failure and part of the... ... quiet evidence of a system that has allowed one group of patients to become invisible.
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News: The Mental Health Bill took a step closer to becoming law after passing its third reading. It includes a commitment to reduce reliance on inpatient care and limit the scope for detention for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. https://t.co/Qm0gcQFBKu
learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk
The third reading of the Mental Health Bill took place in the House of Commons this week and included plans to reduce reliance on inpatient care for people with learning disabilities.
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A right and righteous contribution from @DanielHewittITV and team tonight. 40% of people with a learning disability who died in 2023 died avoidably. I mean WTAF?
A man with Down’s Syndrome was ‘starved to death’ in an NHS hospital, as an ITV News investigation uncovers a growing crisis in the care of learning disabled people. Adrian Poulton was mistakenly not fed for 9 days following a successful hip operation.
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A man with Down’s Syndrome was ‘starved to death’ in an NHS hospital, as an ITV News investigation uncovers a growing crisis in the care of learning disabled people. Adrian Poulton was mistakenly not fed for 9 days following a successful hip operation.
itv.com
People with learning disabilities are dying due to a chronic shortage of learning disability nurses and a failure to train NHS staff, campaigners tell ITV News. | ITV National News
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Debate: Are we actually learning anything from LeDeR? Such large numbers of avoidable deaths show that either we are still far from understanding the actions needed to address them, or not enough is being done to achieve them. https://t.co/VwlMfc2Xtm
learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk
The latest LeDeR report found that the rate for adults with a learning disability who died in 2023 from a preventable cause is still nearly twice that of the general population.
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40% of people with learning disabilities and autism who are detained in hospitals don't need to be there, according to the NHS. So why are they still locked up? @PeterAdamSmith has met Josh Standish and his parents, who are desperate to get him out. Watch the full What You
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Unsafe NHS Treatment Plan Puts Autistic Child at Risk of Physical Harm medically vulnerable 12-year-old girl with autism, complex gastrointestinal disease, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is being denied life-saving care by her gastrointestinal NHS team, in what I believe is
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1/3 Quoting a person with lived experience of enforced isolation: "Loneliness cripples you... You rot alone and the world moves on, but you stay the terrified teenager that was first put in LTS" [p. 2 of HOPE(S) Evaluation]...
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Utterly disgusting and even more so because the coroner thinks that learning disabilities is a cause of death.
Terrible indictment of our times. A very ill mum died despite phoning an ambulance & her daughter with Downs died probably through starvation. They were not found for months. Not a tragic situation it's about the breakdown of our services & communities https://t.co/OGs1hPV9qa
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.@GeorgeJulian really is one of life unsung heroes. Humbly. quietly and relentlessly advocating for people with autism and learning disabilities and their families. A powerhouse of a woman ❤️
@DanielHewittITV @IzzyAldersonB And of course the inquest reporting by @GeorgeJulian that underpins all of this.
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Why do parents not dare to ask for help? The horror of what might happen. https://t.co/eggmPqyqJY
bbc.co.uk
Glynn Brown was told there was no film evidence of his son Aaron being abused, but that was not the case.
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Perhaps @EHRC could now pursue their pre action letter against the Secretary of State from 2020. In the five years since they suspended their legal action, nothing has changed. If anything, things have got worse, @wesstreeting @itvnews. https://t.co/G0jbaAZTvK
@RightfulLives @wesstreeting Will @WesStreeting be the 1st to do something about this state-sanctioned human rights abuse? Really hard to keep hope alive in the anti-disability culture @Keir_Starmer & @RachelReevesMP are fomenting. Perhaps he explain to them some humans are not more human than others?
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'We wish we'd never asked for help' The thousands of people with learning disabilities, who are locked away in mental health units because there is nowhere else for them to go. https://t.co/bef6q9Mi0m
itv.com
Josh is one of more than 2,000 people with severe learning disabilities and autism trapped in a hospital inpatient unit. | ITV National News
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Government's Universal Credit Bill has passed, rushing it through in one day, without a committee stage where Disabled people's voices could have been heard. It's clear: the government views Disabled lives as nothing more than a cost-cutting exercise
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Interested to see what part of the EHCP process Ministers may think we don’t need - is it where: - we identify all the child’s special educational needs? - we specify the provision reasonably required to meet those needs? - the child gets the right to attend a suitable school?
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Brilliant article in The Guardian from @johnharris1969 who is part of our #SaveOurChildrensRights campaign. After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children?
theguardian.com
Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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AN EHCP IS NOT A BENEFIT. It's a plan that asseses a child's needs for education, health and social support. It guarantees help in those areas. It's NOT a benefit. @SkyNews
Notice how Wilfred Frost describes EHCPs as benefits. Education is now part of social security, is it? Frost goes on to pitch disabled people receiving PIP versus kids with special education needs. Why not billionaires vs kids with special education needs? Cus thats the reality
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