York Disability Week
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Keeping York up-to-date with disability activism, especially York Disability Week. York Disability Week 2025 will run from Saturday 29th November to Saturday 6
York, UK
Joined November 2019
I cannot give my son his epilepsy meds in hospital unless a nurse hands them to me and then stands over and observes I’ve been administering them for 26 yrs Is this #InstitutionalParentCarerBlame what are concerned about? Whats the issue? Is it the complaints I’ve made? 🧵
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@mhh02 @YorkDisability Yes and will continue to be until we get full Civil Rights. I could write you a thesis as to why I believe things are actually going backwards but suffice to say that whilst what is ‘reasonable’ is mediated through the cost of equity, we’ll just be fighting for crumbs.
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The programme for York Disability Week is now out! They can be found on the website visiting the link below, or in your local library or community centre. Book an event today! https://t.co/ikognR2N0X
#YorkDisabilityWeek25 #YDW25
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'Incentivising work' or instilling fear? How making the benefits system meaner has backfired https://t.co/v1qUZkkdkE
@Z2K_trust
bigissue.com
New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.
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The Disabled Canon Discussion Wednesday 19th November 2025 https://t.co/Okbm4PeYAU
@differencenorth @Alphabetti
alphabettitheatre.co.uk
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Good luck from all in York this week 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The Disability Discrimination Act became law thirty years ago today, replaced by the Equality Act in 2010. Appropriate then that I have spent the whole day preparing a case of disability discrimination that will be heard in Court next week. Solidarity ✊
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@GSwinburn @YorkDisability @marksandspencer The Equality Act is far from perfect. It relies on individual disabled people taking cases & M&S have clearly not applied any learning from my win against them over their Vanguard store across the rest of their estate, as others have already pointed out. ☹️
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@flickhwilliams @YorkDisability Flick - I spoke with @marksandspencer York central manager Tom/Tim again raising the concern re the floor bins- some have been removed in the milk area- but most remain- repeated the concern- he accepted says he was taking it up the line. It is also hard for the shelf staff too.
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1) question for legal minds , gov applauding themselves that employees can get FWR the reality is no they can not . My husband who is now registered as my carer works 40 hours a week that he has been there 30 years , he has asked to drop a day 3 times rejected under disability
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Tired of the noise around Motability, PIP, Blue Badges, and disabled people working? Here are 5 truths that need saying, loud and clear. 💪💙 #DisabilityAwareness #PIPFacts #MotabilityMyths #InvisibleDisability #DisabledAndProud #ChronicIllness #DisabilityRights
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@benn_elisbenn @flickhwilliams @YorkDisability @theyorkmix @yorkpress @daviddunninguk @JoeGerrard4 Agree totally. I am ashamed of the city in which I was born. No way can I ever consider visiting again since recent times despite being a regular visitor for decades. We need legal action to challenge this overt discrimination.
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Disabled woman refused use of wheelchair space by mums with buggies
mylondon.news
A woman was denied the use of a wheelchair space on the bus by two mums with buggies despite having priority
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Something new is on its way... Years in the making, shaped by love, challenge, and Ella’s quiet lessons. We don’t have to agree on everything to find our shared humanness again. If you want to be a part of that: https://t.co/LfjqMLWLMu
#FlipTheNarrative 💜
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Historic buildings can be made #accessible, take these 22 churches in Islington for example.
linkedin.com
💡 “In many cases, the churches have found that the access works have improved the experience for a wide range of building users, not just disabled users,” said Catherine Sorrell of Cloudesley,...
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'Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability' Charlie Mayfield's favoured model for excluding people with Disabling Diseases from Disability Benefits. https://t.co/8BXUvIRgq4
journals.sagepub.com
The biopsychosocial model (BPS) of mental distress, originally conceived by American psychiatrist George Engel in the 1970s and commonly used in psychiatry and ...
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The 'Accessibility Roadmap' was finally released this week, accompanying the Railways Bill. It was supposed to be a long-term plan with timescales to full rail accessibility, as demanded by the @TransportCttee. Instead, the Roadmap: ◾️ Includes just minor commitments until 2027
gov.uk
Sets out actions government is taking to make railways more accessible, leading up to the establishment of Great British Railways (GBR).
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How can a hospital ward not have thermometers that work ? @wesstreeting
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@MsAlisonHume while you are at York hosp today ask about carers pls
To Every medical professional and Trust managers please remember we #UnpaidCarers do the job you cannot do or have the experience or knowledge to do .. that mum on the floor you step over has worked more back 2 back shifts than you ever have
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