Founder / director of Unique Connections, which exists to improve the lives of those with learning disabilities and autism who self-injure.
Joined April 2021
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Completely agree. This language amounts to a slow, insipid indoctrination that there are 'working people' on one side and everyone else on the other side. And we have to pick a side. It's divisive - and it's an intentional set up for cuts against the most vulnerable.
What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space….
Laughed all the way through this article. Thought someone else might need the same at the end of A Tuesday. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The Prime Minister was unable to answer a simple question today about why a disabled person who needs help to eat, wash and manage toilet needs could no longer get PIP under his proposals.
The Government must drop this cruel proposal or it’ll face the mother of all rebellions.
Just found this in a post-incident debrief form for patients in a NHS mental health unit.
You're detained under the MHA and you've been restrained, where would this debrief question take you...
'In your mind, what led to the incident?'
'In your mind...'
It feels too bizarre to be true - but our labour government is taking money off the most vulnerable to put into a war machine...
Have you any idea how terrified people with learning disabilities and autistic people are right now @Keir_Starmer? And they certainly won’t be getting any support on this from social care or the NHS.
@UKLabour #benefitscuts #DisabilityBenefits
In our current season, we're exploring how trauma-informed care can be applied in organisations supporting people with severe learning disabilities. Come and listen and we'd love to hear your thoughts...
I met with the team from The Loddon School for a conversation about trauma and learning disabilities.
Check it out here:
On The Spectrum Podcast - Ep. 11 Dr Beverley Samways, Unique Connections youtu.be/OwyRzGJI5aw?si=X8Dj… via @YouTube
So many great conversations with senior staff doing amazing work @swalss_uk this morning. If we didn’t get a chance to connect, just reach out….
Currently coding restraint policies from NHS mental health units to investigate how they are incorporating Seni's Law requirements for people with learning disabilities... and came across this phrase:
'All staff must understand the mechanisms of death in restraint'🤯 I mean...
Excellent work @RightfulLives
Thank you for articulating so well what I was spluttering to myself about when I first read this... 👌
Our statement regarding a paper published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
rightfullives.org.uk/blog/st…
@AmandaPritchard @ClaireCNWL @wesstreeting @TheBJPsych @CareQualityComm @DHSCgovuk @rcpsych @mencap_charity @Autism @BILD_tweets @DavidAltonHL @KeeleyMP @RamseyjJane @BaronessHollins
Incredibly helpful to distinguish these. the mixing of these two things up actually erodes culture over time.
I had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so I decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness. Kindness is about caring enough to push people toward greatness, even when it’s uncomfortable. It’s a harder path but better in the long run:
learningandleadershipconsult…. By @emb928
Graphic: @thejustinmecham via @dangrimes1980
This pragmatic honesty is refreshing… many of us in the care sector are busting a gut to facilitate the secure employment of gifted migrant workers we desperately need. But we’re working against the grain… the narrative and the system needs reforming. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Lovely day out for us at Unique Connections #sua2024 as Start Up For Good finalists 😊🎉🙌🏽
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There's never a bad time to share a video of that time Akala humiliated Yaxley-Lennon on TV, but now seems as good a time as any.
Today I got to share Cassie’s story at #IASSIDD2024 in Chicago. Cassie, when you told me I could share it with people you would never meet, I didn’t think it would get this far. But today, your story shifted assumptions and atmospheres again, like I knew it would. #selfinjury
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Excited to hear the first keynote of the conference with our friends @fionnathan who are currently undertaking a joint PhD! #IASSIDD2024
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COVENTRY CITY 🫱🏻🫲🏾🫵🏿💙
We don’t do fascism around here pal.
Wood End to Hillfields, Foleshill to Tile Hill.
We don’t wanna see this stupidity ruin our city or our people.
City til we die.
If you’re from Cov and think the same, like and retweet the shit out of this.
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So pleased to be at #IASSIDD2024 conference with @TarletonBeth and @BeverleySamways. Looking forward to hearing about international colleagues work and presenting our own on parents with learning disabilities
