I have written a book, Human Rights and Social Care: Putting Rights into Practice. Find out more about this via my blog https://t.co/hxcIcfK1Ri or the C-Change Scotland https://t.co/CaCILUQeem #RightsIntoPractice #HumanRights #SocialCare

It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop! ✊️🫡🤜🤛

Scotland’s care system faces collapse Here’s a short version of my long read in @heraldscotland if you’re pushed for time. It’s an important story https://t.co/17aSsg3868

Our CEO @VivienneDicken2 joins third sector organisations calling for immediate action to address the health and social care crisis. An open letter to the First Minister in todays Herald calls for commitments to funding and inclusive decision making. 👇 https://t.co/XPER99PEdM

holy shit this is a helluva ad

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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

Josh has spent his entire adult life locked up. There is no date for his release because he never committed a crime. Josh is one of around 2,000 people in England with a learning disability and/or autism kept locked up in England. @itvnews

🏛️ Deinstitutionalisation. We do know how to do this better. However, if we get stuck or lack the bold confidence needed, there is great guidance available: https://t.co/KyttPmlhNl 👇 Watch our CEO Sam Smith on BBC's Reporting Scotland.

🎥 Sam Smith, CEO of C-Change, takes us back: we *are* key workers — skilled, valued, essential. 💙 C-Change will keep fighting alongside organisations such as the @ccpscotland for better conditions & real support from government. #ValueSupportWork #SocialCareMatters

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What a courageous, decent human being bearing witness while doing such important work. They ensure we can't say we don't know. I am in awe of him and his colleagues.

Perhaps it was important to someone to delay these sanctions

'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

📢 Immigration announcement ‘shows profound disregard for social care’ Our CEO @r_cackett responds to the UK Govt's move to curb recruitment of care workers from overseas ➡️ Read the statement here: https://t.co/yBmQv7fgMI @CG_CarrGomm @ruthdorman @IanMWelsh @cchangescotland

Call me pessimistic but I’m sick of the billion dollar space bullshit when people are starving and homeless on the ground. It’s giving Hunger Games Capital

Special meeting of the @cchangescotland Board today hearing from the people we work for and their families;culture, voice, personal-centredness, independence, power, empowerment, the very essence of an inclusive, progressive human rights-based approach to social care and support.

Wikler: If the richest person in the world can go around buying votes to gain control of the courts—just like he seems to have bought control of the White House—then we’ve lost any semblance of the rule of law, and our democracy has been smashed to pieces. Or rather, cut with

We need all hands on deck to defeat Brad Schimel and defuse Elon Musk’s money bomb. Electing Judge Susan Crawford will take resources to reach voters across Wisconsin. Help fuel our efforts. Chip in here. https://t.co/cRrqtcftl5

💐Here's to the mums who build communities, advocate, represent loved ones and keep fighting the good fight. ✨️We praise your resilience and strength 🙌Thank you for everything you do #HappyMothersDay #Mums #BetterIsPossible #GoodLives #poetry

I recommend this video from the former US ambassador to Denmark to every US citizen. So that they know that the citizens of this country,which their US vice president referred to as a bad ally,were putting their lives on the line for the US in Afghanistan