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Echos many of my fears

This is the elephant in the room - we can’t tell people having a tough time to “reach out” if some of those, having the toughest time, are then excluded from meaningful help.. am seeing enough evidence of this to know it’s a real thing and needs to be addressed

Another council, another attack on disabled people's social care. Kent council has a proposal to include the full amount of benefits as income for care charges despite Scope's findings showing we pay £100s extra per month due to disability letstalk.kent.gov.uk/disability-ben…

I’ve been a wheelchair user for over 12 yrs. I tried to keep walking in ways that were dangerous for ages due to fears about how others would respond (doing lasting damage). How we present wheelchairs matters as they are tools that open up lives: touretteshero.com/2021/03/01/whe…

Another important piece from Touretteshero highlighting the hidden and unspoken aspects of needing support and the stress this causes Full piece: feveredsleep.co.uk/our-blog-1/tim…

Ableist assumptions can become reality by creating barriers for disabled people. It's time to change perspective 👓 📹 "Assume I can. So maybe I will."

Missed so much as both a colleague and friend. This quote sums Sally up: "Sally was, in many ways, a living embodiment of the study of the human condition - she was kind, generous, would challenge others but do so with kindness. She was a wonderful researcher and thinker"

Our needs never start complex. They start super simple: to be safe, to be seen, to be secure. It's only when those that are supposed to help seriously let us down, that things start to seem complex.

Supporting people to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible, is a guiding principle of the Care Act. But what do we really mean by ‘independent’? New blog: Words that make me go hmmm: independent #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters rewritingsocialcare.blog/independent

Read our new publication here - it's coming out in Research in Education later in the year, but you can read it first here on White Rose Research Online: “No-one’s contribution is more valid than another’s”: Committing to inclusive democratic methodologies eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/212085/

'We used a domestic violence resource which identifies harmful interpersonal behaviours in relationships. It described how we'd often felt treated by mental health practitioners & we wanted to see if other people had a similar experience'. asylummagazine.org/2024/06/back-t…

It's been a busy couple of months since joining the @CrippingBreath team. I have been working with the fabulous Dr. Kirsty Liddiard to set up our Community Researcher coalition. Please check out our animation and share with individuals who live with/on ventilation (CPAP, BiPAP)

“If you are not disabled and you regularly go to a yoga class, a book group or just the pub, when was the last time you did so with even a single disabled adult present?” Thanks to John Harris for being one of the rare columnists to ask these Qs. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…