
Sam Clark
@smclrk
Passionate about people, rights & community - all asset based. Work @LearningDisEng. Own views here. Retweets interest not necc agreement
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01-08-2010 15:53:07
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My piece for Byline Times: if only the reams of evidence about inequality was matched by real effort to tackle it. The injustice of early deaths was first reported 25 years ago. '...we sometimes feel like we are banging our heads against a brick wall, like nothing has changed'




Check out this website for all things voting myvotemyvoice.org.uk #LearningDisabilities #MyVoteMyVoice #GetSeenGetHeardGetInvolved #GoodLives24 NYLDPB KeyRing Self Advocates ExclusivelyInclusive

Great opportunity to help shape this new work ‘Be Epilepsy Aware’. Project will empower people with #learningdisability & #epilepsy to understand & manage their #longtermcondition . Important work, please support. North East and North Cumbria NHS NENC Provider Collaborative Sam Allen 💙 Inclusion North Sam Clark


It is 13 years since the Winterbourne scandal. Real progress in tackling this problem of incarceration is minimal Solutions are clear but the vested interests opposed to those solutions are powerful. LDEngland LDE academics Citizen Network Research citizen-network.org/library/close-…

🚨 Read our new report on Do Not Resuscitate decisions, made with people with learning disabilities & their loved ones. 🧑🤝🧑Commissioned by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, it calls for big changes to the way DNARs are used in healthcare to uphold human rights. buff.ly/3PlLrWZ


So last year I was invited by the charity @changingourlives & Uni of Birmingham to create an installation to help highlight the vast amount of people with learning disabilities and/or autism that are stuck in hospitals. It’s now at Site Gallery in Sheffield until 7th April…


📢 Community Living Magazine new stories are out today, we recently redesigned the quarterly (some previous and glorious covers🔽) and launched a new site communitylivingmagazine.com A tiny, charity-run operation with a big heart - any love on LinkedIn would be awesome linkedin.com/company/commun…



Five Tests for creating #GloriouslyOrdinaryLives - not a checklist or process, simply a lens through which to view support. Join us on the June course. Use the tests to reflect on what things are like now and create a plan for what you’ll do next. gloriouslyordinarylives.co.uk/training-curio…

Jade Clare Reeves 🦋🌳❤️🤍 Frankie Addinall Rumbidzai Mashavave I'm ready! You ready Sarah Range (she/her) @HannahScaife1 Rob Mitchell Sam Clark Ali Gunn (she/her) BASW #PromotetheVote new.basw.co.uk/policy-and-pra…


'People with learning disabilities are invisible in general research on multimorbidity & NICE guidelines..because they count learning disability itself as a long-term health condition. This fundamental error..is deeply unhelpful' Chris Hatton Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met communitylivingmagazine.com/chris-hatton-c…
