A change to protections For more information on this topic, visit the Advonet website, where they have produced an Easy Read explanation of the Supreme Court Ruling. On 2nd June, there was a Supreme Court Ruling that didn’t really make the headline news. It decided that the acid test’ (a safeguarding check to make sure […]
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Thank you to Christina Olivant for sharing her experiences of living with epilepsy. My first absence seizure happened on Christmas Eve 2016, during my first watch of “The Holiday” with my mum, dad, and sister, when I got up to go into kitchen. Suddenly I was in the hospital and with everyone as confused as
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Steering group members Hilary and Helen have been sifting through the Chancellor’s 2024 Budget over the past 24 hours and have put together a bite size list of what we believe are the key details for disabled people. It has not been easy reading and we agree with the CEO of Sense, Richard Kramer, who
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In January 2021 Ben and I wrote a blog about the difficulties we faced in lockdown. Love, care and common sense got us through the Covid crisis. We were looking forward to better days. We weren’t expecting another crisis so soon! But come 2022, as an older carer, I needed to think about strengthening Ben’s
The Connecting Our City project has caused harm to both its staff and the wider community it has engaged over the past two years. This letter seeks to raise awareness of that harm.
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YDRF has been informed that a decision has been made for the autism and ADHD assessment “3 month pilot” to be extended for 9 more months. We believe there might also be some changes to the eligibility criteria but have no details about this. The Do It Profiler online screening tool will continue to be
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A tweet recently asked what one thing people would like to change about the way society reacts to and perceives self harm. The answers to this question were mainly related to the medical profession and the treatment of self harmers. Helen and Hazel sat down to have a chat about this topic and how the
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We’ve been talking to York Ending Stigma recently about their work and also what it’s like to have a physical impairment and poor mental health. Lauren, one of York Ending Stigma’s champions, has kindly written about this, and ideas of what disability looks like, for us. “But you don’t look disabled…” I’ve heard this quite
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Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2022 runs from 7th till 11th February and is, as the name suggests, a chance to increase awareness around feeding tubes! Helen from the Steering Group has had her feeding tube for a few years now and wanted to use this week as an opportunity to answer questions. Sometimes people have
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Our annual survey highlighted three key areas for us to work on; health and care, physical accessibility and attitudes and awareness. Further discussion has helped us get a bit more detail about those areas. We’re holding a couple of online meetings in January where we’ll start figuring out how we take action on the things that
