Ruth
@Ruth2729
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Mother of autistic learning disabled son failed by the useless mental health system.Trapped in hell that is Carstairs. Will not stop until I get my son home.
Joined September 2020
Today is my autistic son's 23rd birthday. 4th birthday I haven't seen him. 4th year he has spent alone in a room, heavily drugged lying under a blanket distressed and distraught. Hope he got his card, as I have no contact at all. Love and miss you son. Will never give up on you.x
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RT @PeterStefanovi2: NHS managers who silence whistleblowers will be banned from working in other senior health service roles, the governme….
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Doctors and nurses currently have rules and standards they legally have to follow and meet, but managers do not.
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RT @LDTonline: As the spotlight falls on people with learning disabilities this week for all the wrong reasons, it's worth re-sharing this….
learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk
Learning Disability Week is good time to reflect on the more serious issues impacting the lives of people with a learning disability.
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RT @RightfulLives: #HumanRights are for everyone @wesstreeting, yet two recent reports from @itvnews prove that, time and again, the Right….
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RT @DanielHewittITV: NEW: The UK government is being accused of sitting on an official report into the deaths of learning disabled and auti….
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The unpublished report relates to deaths in 2023 and was due to be released last year. | ITV National News
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RT @johnpringdns: Yep, @DrFrancesRyan spot on again. The disablist media/political discourse means disabled people are forced to 'prove our….
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Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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RT @CelineOConnor12: Muckamore hospital in Northern Ireland "UK's largest adult safeguarding investigation & made the hospital one of natio….
bbc.com
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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RT @davidabbottbris: @itvnews Here’s a forensic look at how all recent governments have spectacularly and unforgivably failed to make any p….
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RT @RightfulLives: Perhaps @EHRC could now pursue their pre action letter against the Secretary of State from 2020. In the five years since….
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RT @Dawn26467771: 'Until there is proper community support in place Josh continues to be locked up. "It's easy to lock people like Josh awa….
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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RT @Rebecca49294469: The exact words I used 7 years ago. “I wish I never asked for help.”. They deserve the world and more. Families are tr….
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RT @DrEvgenyLegedin: 'SSRIs & SNRIs may cause withdrawal reactions (ie, new symptoms that were not present before) despite slow tapering; t….
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RT @RightfulLives: Lifeways again. When are local authorities going to monitor properly the care services they commission @wesstreeting?. h….
bbc.co.uk
The CQC identified five breaches of regulations at Lifeways Community Care in Leicestershire.
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RT @Dawn26467771: There is no plan here for addressing the significant health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities….
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RT @elly_chapple: Sept 2025 🔥. Understanding Parent Blame by Dr Ana Aiello & Prof Luke Clements. Revealing how parents are wrongly blamed….
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RT @RightfulLives: Suffice to say that there aren’t enough tears for autistic people and people with learning disabilities trying to surviv….
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RT @JoPavlopoulou: so true for all neurodivergencies incl acquired ones. lets allow family members and carers to have what they need to of….
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RT @ItsEmilyKaty: One of the hard things about being in the mental health system is having no control over what is written about you in you….
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RT @MITUKteam: Moving tribute to a son who died while taking ‘antipsychotic’ drugs. By MITUK admin. #PsychiatricDr….
madintheuk.com
A family left bereft after psychiatry failed to inform them of the risks to their son's life while under their care.
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RT @ScotHumanRights: This week we were in Poland, presenting our Participation Strategy at a @ennhri event on the role of NHRIs in protecti….
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RT @timboxall: An excellent article by John Harris on the hypocrisy of Starmers professed staunch desire to maintain "human dignity" & his….
theguardian.com
These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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