Saba Salman
@Saba_Salman
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Journalist|editor|author ✍🏽Private Eye|Byline Times|Guardian|Ed: Community Living Chair @Sibs_uk Fellow @theRSAorg 📚2026 @JKPBooks https://t.co/Cm7W2kThX5🔽
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Joined September 2010
#MadePossible stories of success by learning disabled people - in their own words. It's about being human. And people's futures. Inspired by my sister. A book for right now. - https://t.co/om0yUMfV20 - https://t.co/SYw7p36Fcn - https://t.co/Yzi2wR8rXs - https://t.co/ETSkWJbh2d
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New stories out now! As the risk to rights and access continues apace, meet those taking positive action. Here's @Saba_Salman 's intro to some of our latest stories. https://t.co/vSqKjrss4e
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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A whiff of whitewashing in Newcastle, as the council has refused to publish a long-awaited taxpayer-funded £74,000 investigation into claims Labour ex-leader Nick Kemp bullied an officer. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now. PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of
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Our cover's a vision of possibility but we don't shy away from shameful failures in: - SEND support - young people's 'transition' to adult 'care' - healthcare - welfare support (US and UK) By @SheffieldMencap @PropJourn @samcarlisle @maryohara1 and more🔽
communitylivingmagazine.com
The campaigning magazine on equality, inclusion and living life: learning disabilities, care, health, welfare, housing, arts and more
NEW stories out tomorrow Friday 3 Oct, including: - what's cooking @SheffieldMencap - UK and US cuts @maryohara1 - EHCP challenge @PropJourn - accessible healthcare @LearningDisEng - Beautiful Lives @RoseUnwin - Barriers to Adult Life @samcarlisle
https://t.co/B5aHA0GXKW
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Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money. The documentary tells the story of how the government went from having almost no stocks of PPE to having more than could ever possibly be used, and how some companies with little or no track
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Discord in the land of song. #locgov
An Anglesey councillor who declared that “all Tories should be shot” has now suggested that his words are in fact a Welsh idiom. Independent councillor Ieuan Williams’s outburst came at a 2023 board meeting and was recently discussed at a standards committee hearing. PLUS news
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There are facts. Then there's this. Not helped by council narratives (Reform and not) re soaring demand and huge costs - which aren't the fault of families needing support. Also not helped by media often lacking factual balance and other perspectives. https://t.co/Ylo2JfufLO
bbc.co.uk
The Reform UK deputy leader says some children are receiving Send provision who do not need it.
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Mortality review 2023🔽finished in 2024 and now published - as 2025 ends: https://t.co/n8BSwPlqiM Among the stats: - 60% of learning disabled adults who had a LeDeR review died before 65 - adults from all ethnic groups had a younger median age at death compared to white adults
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Apathy: vital research🔽isn't shared just as research that could drive change [mortality review/'LeDeR', grim acronym] is shared only after pressure. And this review confirms what we already knew of inequality. And shows little change since 'annual' reviews began almost 10y ago.
What happened when we tried to send some information to the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) Health Issues Special Interest Research Group. It's a sorry tale. (Easy read and audio.) https://t.co/r0Bh27HgCp
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Got one minute to spare? Could you spend it tapping about one minute to vote for our charity-run magazine? Just type in 'CL Initiatives Ltd' - thank you and do share!
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Private Eye on Surrey’s SEND education - the worst performance in the country: “Yet the [Surrey] key movers and shakers who have presided over this mess are falling upwards, wielding huge influence over the government's planned SEND reforms.” https://t.co/a5PmoMiXZI
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Chaos at cash-strapped Wirral council thanks to its bungled revamp of Birkenhead town centre – with one councillor suggesting the disused civic HQ become a, er, casino. Independent Conservative Kathy Hodson suggested the idea of turning the old town hall into a gambling mecca,
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Vital read🔽Recent @CommLivingMag_ extract gives a glimpse of why: 'The enjoyment of something as basic as eating can be compromised by social segregation and dental care so poor it could amount to systemic violence, argues Sara Ryan in her latest book' https://t.co/xyP3Zs6q6x
communitylivingmagazine.com
The enjoyment of something as basic as eating can be compromised by social segregation and dental care so poor it could amount to systemic violence, argues Sara Ryan in this extract from her latest...
So excited my new book is out tomorrow. https://t.co/jGkMxYSsZH 20% discount code: 25AFLY2*.
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Homelessness minister who spoke out about renters' rights quits after raising the rent on a house she owns 'within weeks of the previous tenants' contracts ending'. https://t.co/HiWnuv5vSh
bbc.co.uk
It comes after she increased rent on a house she owns within weeks of the previous tenants' contracts ending.
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Yes definitely this, and how EHCPs make a difference to the rest of the family (and people's futures, obv).
Don’t forget the H and the C in the EHCPs (the media always does). Disabled children and young people come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and providing good Health and social Care is essential to their future.
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I wrote this on the latest Gregg Wallace hoo-ha for @theipaper "I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the vast majority of autistic men manage to hold down a career – day in, day out – without once feeling the need to get their tackle out in public". https://t.co/qk8mxxEZNF
inews.co.uk
Being neurodivergent is not a free pass to behave badly or humiliate women. His comments are dangerous
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It fully blows my mind how much misinformation is permitted to circulate about support for children and young people with SEND 🤯
@LBC @TiceRichard @TomSwarbrick1 Hi @TomSwarbrick1, I am a lawyer who represents parents of SEND children. @TiceRichard is completely mistaken in his view that the number of parents requesting EHCPs has risen so they can receive tax exemption in private school fees.
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Horrendous prospect this: the rights-grab leaves children and families 'at the mercy of politicians who will then vandalise their lives'. #SaveOurChildrensRights
What I wrote on Sunday, and in today's FT, here it is. If Labour takes SEND families' rights away, this may well be what we have to face, with no defences
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'It was expected that Trump’s government would target welfare programmes. But Labour in Britain? That’s just shameful.' @maryohara1 in @CommLivingMag_
https://t.co/b5iYz0ZBGp
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#EHCPs: Why we’re campaigning to save a ‘broken’ system. SNJ's @TaniaLT in @SchoolsWeek on the #SaveOurChildrensRights campaign: Stop the Government stripping away rights and instead fix what they broke. We will not back down until they do. https://t.co/Odh2RMNEd0
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Too much nasty dehumanising hyperbole here to fit into a single post. https://t.co/csGb5WSRyv
bbc.co.uk
Conservative leader tells the BBC there needs to be a "crack down on people exploiting the system".
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