Ben Higgins (@benh_rrn) 's Twitter Profile
Ben Higgins

@benh_rrn

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linkhttp://restraintreductionnetwork.org calendar_today20-07-2017 11:52:20

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Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

13-year-old autistic activist Alex Campbell wants to end seclusion at schools, is particularly concerned about non-verbal kids. nbcnews.com/news/education…

13-year-old autistic activist Alex Campbell wants to end seclusion at schools, is particularly concerned about non-verbal kids. nbcnews.com/news/education…
The Associated Press (@ap) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Police and law enforcement experts broadly condemn the way a Minneapolis police officer restrained George Floyd by digging his knee into this neck, saying no circumstances warrant such a dangerous technique. Floyd died in police custody. apne.ws/nZDwKDo

LDEngland (@learningdiseng) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Survey: Working with NDTi & Bild - Valuing People Alliance Covid survey. Building on what people told us already on what matters next - we will share results with policy makers & wider surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VPACovid19e Easy Read guide: bild.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Amanda Batten (@amanda_batten) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Powerful reporting on the SEND crisis from Sean Dilley NEWS BBC Panorama Gets across the true human cost of a system getting it wrong. Infuriatingly,I’ve seen the same stories again and again over the years, but the sadness and injustice of it all gets me every time. #KeepFighting

Care Quality Commission (@carequalitycomm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're demanding a national system change to prevent future generations of autistic people and/or people with a learning disability from 'falling through the gaps' #OutOfSight cqc.org.uk/news/releases/…

CQC Press Office (@cqcpressoffice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read Care Quality Commission report and recommendations on restraint, seclusion and segregation for autistic people, and people with a learning disability and/or mental health condition cqc.org.uk/rssreport #Outofsight

LDEngland (@learningdiseng) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read what the Valuing People Alliance @BenH_BILD NDTi have said about the reports on deaths of people with learning disabilities from COVID-19 learningdisabilityengland.org.uk/news/long-awai…

Read what the Valuing People Alliance @BenH_BILD <a href="/NDTicentral/">NDTi</a>  have said about the reports on deaths of people with learning disabilities from COVID-19 learningdisabilityengland.org.uk/news/long-awai…
Jonathan Senker (@jonathan_senker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Vaccination priorities published, but still fails to mention people with a learning disability in priorities - except people with a "severe and profound learning disability." Despite PHE indicating 6 x higher mortality rate (controlled for age and sex).bit.ly/2JBSSuk

Restraint Reduction Network (@therrnetwork) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Restraint Reduction Network welcomes the EHRC report into #restraint in #schools and supports its recommendations. We urgently need robust and coherent reporting and monitoring of restraint in schools at a national level: orlo.uk/3bKk1

Restraint Reduction Network (@therrnetwork) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Have you experienced Restraint or Restrictive Practice? We're looking for a new Trustee with direct lived experience. Find out more by watching the video or reading the easy-read job description on our website: orlo.uk/okWRl Alexis Quinn Unbroken Venessa Swaby (Bobb) All Wales People 1st

Norman Lamb (@normanlamb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Restraint Reduction Network is looking for a new Chair of Trustees. It’s a really important role. RRN does vital work. restraintreductionnetwork.org/uncategorized/…

Ben Higgins (@benh_rrn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Teresa Fenech (NHSE) explains that the publication of the MH Use of Force Act (Seni’s Law) Statutory Guidance this month gives a moral duty for NHSE to expand requirements of Statutory reporting of restraint and use of RRN certified training #RRNconf2021

Jon Trickett MP (@jon_trickett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The NHS has 98,000 unfilled vacancies. The whole social care sector has 170,000 unfilled vacancies 60,000 further social care workers quit their jobs in three recent months of data This is not a worker shortage, this is a wage shortage. Pay these workers at least 15% more.

Oliver  Shanley (@shanleyoliver) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is such a great opportunity for someone to join the network and work with Ben Higgins and team in this essential work. Please take a look, could this be you ?

Restraint Reduction Network (@therrnetwork) 's Twitter Profile Photo

RRN welcomes todays Scottish Government consultation on guidance regarding the use of restraint in schools. The consultation is a significant step forward. However, we support calls for this guidance to be made a statutory requirement. Read our full response restraintreductionnetwork.org/uncategorized/…

Care Quality Commission (@carequalitycomm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We talk about our new cross sector policy position statement on restrictive practice and what you have the right to expect when receiving healthcare in our latest blog post. orlo.uk/oaSWs

Alexis Quinn Unbroken (@aquinnunbroken) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Solitary confinement is the most harrowing experience any human being can be put through. It becomes not about how you exist, but whether you exist. Poor children left kicking and screaming - panic of impending annihilation I know only too well. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-688973…

Eileen Mitchell (@em093ni) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi all, I've decided to share this video. Just b4 Christmas my autistic sister Katie (who doesn't speak and has the mindset of a toddler) went 2 buy a ÂŁ2 dvd but the till had closed early and started crying in the shop. Police were called& forcibly removed her. #AutismAwareness