Saskia Baron
@saskiabaron
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Journalist/tv producer. Interests: autism & intellectual disability; medical ethics; cinema. Film/tv critic @theartsdesk.com. TV docs https://t.co/Mr0eUt2FSy
London, England
Joined August 2015
★★ Disappointing French-Canadian romance #TheNatureofLove fails to ignite despite its ambitious attempt to jazz up a standard drama writes @saskiabaron
https://t.co/lL8sEmdWis
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BREAKING Biggest waste of all Tory PPE deals. £1.4 billion of PPE, believed to be compliant, ordered from Full Support Healthcare has been destroyed Equivalent to 35,000 nurses salaries up in smoke Tories staying quiet!! 😡 @BBCNews https://t.co/cA08xiZfBi
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'People with learning disabilities are invisible in general research on multimorbidity & NICE guidelines..because they count learning disability itself as a long-term health condition. This fundamental error..is deeply unhelpful' Chris Hatton @LearningMet
https://t.co/MXMnUbubgO
communitylivingmagazine.com
As long as research and official guidelines view learning disability as a health condition, individuals’ distinctive health needs and often multiple disorders will be excluded from studies and...
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On SNJ: After @BBCPanorama revealed horrific abuse against #DisabledChildren at #LifeWirral school, we ask if you think for-profit companies be allowed to run special schools. Read our thoughts and give us yours at the end of the article: https://t.co/owADE7QPJy
#BBCPanorama
specialneedsjungle.com
Life Wirral school abuse scandal: We ask, should for-profit companies be allowed to run special schools putting money above children
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Panorama - Undercover School: Cruelty In The Classroom On @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer now #BBCPanorama
https://t.co/PufNMAvcj8
bbc.co.uk
Panorama investigates an SEN school where pupils are mocked, bullied and physically abused
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‘The treatment of people with autism and learning difficulties is a disgrace.’ It sure is @UKLabour. So what will you do about it? #LabourManifesto
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★★★★ #MadeinEngland: @saskiabaron reviews an adoring tribute by Martin Scorsese to British filmmaking legends #PowellandPressburger
https://t.co/APtuU5bW9H
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★★★★★ IO CAPITANO - #MatteoGarrone's #Oscar-nominated drama of two teenage boys pursuing their dream is a gripping odyssey from Senegal to Italy, says @saskiabaron
https://t.co/wh99U66qIB
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★★★★ EVIL DOES NOT EXIST - #RyusukeHamaguchi's nuanced follow-up to #DriveMyCar is a parable about the perils of eco-tourism with a violent twist, says @saskiabaron
https://t.co/OkNTGw8SoJ
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In the wake of László Nemes' comments on The Zone of Interest, here's my article about the history of filming at Auschwitz
writersmosaic.org.uk
Saskia Baron on how directors can represent on film what happened at Auschwitz with Jonathan Glazer’s feature film The Zone of Interest
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★★★★★ Superbly elliptical tale of a troubled boy #Monster: Hirakazu Kore-eda, on top form in his native Japan, directs an intricate psychological drama writes @saskiabaron
https://t.co/e0IVSvjcaG
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★★★★ Evocative portrait of the migrant experience: Roy Williams and Ebenezer Bamgboye skilfully bring Sam Selvon's novel to the stage finds @saskiabaron reviewing #TheLonelyLondoners @JSTheatre
https://t.co/7Gvuikr1Jj
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This #InternationalEpilepsyDay, I am so heartened to see so many shared posts by members of the #UKRET network. I firmly believe that the best way to advance research into epilepsy is by partnering up and coming together to solve the complex nature of rare epilepsies. (1/4)
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Calling health professionals who work with and support people with a learning disability and autistic people. Read the published guidance on #SleepApnoea (OSA). Please do share with your networks. https://t.co/KS7yNWknwk
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Shocking that the Whorlton Hall Four only got suspended sentences…and equally shocking that the directors and seniors management weren’t in the dock too.
“In my judgment this offending did not stem from a lack of training but rather this offending flowed from a malign culture which developed at Whorlton Hall.” I think - in terms of social harm the sentences are lenient. But/and what about the people who makes ££ from this culture?
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Sixteen people with a learning disability were abused at Whorlton Hall and suffered a lifetime of trauma. Yet their paid staff escape jail and receive suspended sentences. This isn’t justice.
bbc.com
They are given suspended sentences after BBC Panorama exposed their actions in an undercover film.
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Children's homes in Italy are run by not-for-profits, children mostly stay in their own communities, social workers have a choice of homes and a place typically costs £838 a week. The setup in the UK shames us all.
In our latest blog, Ivana La Valle explores what we can learn from Italian residential care to inform the current debate on how to improve the English #residential #care system. https://t.co/ZEK9ufmvx3
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“..the multiple and severe disruptions to health services (with the exception of COVID-19 vaccination) that people with learning disabilities experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic have continued and in some respects worsened in the United Kingdom in the ‘postpandemic’ phase.”
'Improvements in access to health services for people with learning disabilities after the #pandemic have not yet happened' conclude Chris Hatton & colleagues. Important #Health #inequalities paper
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A mate from Calderdale who is part of a self-advocacy org is keen to link with local academics (Leeds, Bradford, H'field Unis?) who might want to do some research with people with learning disabilities in that part of the world. Do pls reply or DM if you've ideas I can pass on.
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