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Mental health twitter! Can anyone recommend any short films about human rights, lived experience, peer support, and/or alternatives to coercion, ideally made by/with people with lived experience? It's to show students for a lecture on mental health and human rights. Thanks!

Hoping that Adam Wagner KC or some other human rights myth-buster can shed some light on this chicken nugget stuff that's doing the rounds...

I do hope someone's told the Free Speech Union that in the USA many States and the Federal government are banning the teaching of critical race theory... sounds like a terrible interference with freedom of speech...

😃With Rightful Lives I'm co-organising an event about learning disability and autism in the #MHBill 📢 Phenomenal line-up of speakers, all of whom have experience of MHA detention 📅 Tues 4 March at 6pm 📍At Doughty Street Chambers Chambers and on Zoom 💻doughtystreet.co.uk/event/deep-div…

Does anyone know what's happening with the Casey review of social care? Will there be a call for evidence any time soon?

Context on this piece 'For Your Own Safety' I asked people who had been in a psychiatric ward to share an experience which I could embroider to make a shared piece. Each piece of fabric is a different person's experience of being treated in hospital in the UK.

One week since the email, I still feel wobbly over how quickly your life can be turned inside out, when you have to use professional services. Woody Gets A Partner markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/woo…

Twenty years ago, Peter Lodge wrote to the Guardian to complain about the state’s treatment of family carers. In 2022, he died suddenly at the home he shared with his severely disabled son, David, who had no way to call for help. 1/5

The Court of Appeal explains why local authorities cannot consent to the confinement of children in their care: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/the-court-of-a…

I know we need to stay positive, but a commission to improve adult social care that immediately jumps to protecting hospital beds (from pesky, unproductive & costly older people?) is not the start of a recovery of social care, it’s the underlying culture behind its demise.

The terms of reference for the Casey #socialcare commission are published today (though staff have been working for a while). There are concerns, particularly timing, but they should offer the scope Baroness Casey needs to do a thorough job. Thread below ⬇️gov.uk/government/pub…

Liz Kendall’s big speech on benefits has declared she wants to help disabled people “build a decent life.” I wonder how taking the disability benefits they need to wash and leave the house achieves that exactly?

It's our birthday - 5 years old today! Who are we and what have we achieved in the last five years? And what's next? #openjustice #notsecretcourt openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/06/15/ope…

Happy birthday Open Justice Court of Protection Project! What a lovely group photo :)