Community Living Magazine
@CommLivingMag_
The campaigning magazine on equality, inclusion and living life: learning disabilities, care, health, welfare, housing, arts and more. Editor: @Saba_Salman
📢 New website live! Our independent, quarterly title supports inclusion, promotes equality and challenges assumptions about learning disability. We believe in the right for people to thrive in their communities. Check out what we do and why: communitylivingmagazine.com
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The Care Quality Commission is charged with ensuring care providers are up to standard. @GeorgeJulian describes what action it can take when concerns become apparent. communitylivingmagazine.com/when-the-regul…
A pub with a games room and cheap drinks. What more could you want? asks @hannahfearn When you walk in, you’re not in a day centre communitylivingmagazine.com/lets-all-drink… @OxfordshireCC
What the right-wing US administration is doing to welfare could be expected – but it is galling that the more left-wing government in the UK is also savaging the benefits system. #WelfareReformBill @maryohara1 communitylivingmagazine.com/mary-ohara-aus…
📻Looking forward to hearing our writer Simon Jarrett on R4 today at 3.30pm - talking about the history of learning disabilities. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
We worked with @TafCwm to co-produce the Game of Rights - an Easy Read card game to support people with learning disabilities to know and advocate for their human rights. Read all about it in @CommLivingMag_: buff.ly/g1r8cya
We know what people need not only to survive, but thrive. Amid chaos, confusion and cuts to welfare, read about why we need more - not less - support, rights and advocacy. #WelfareReformBill communitylivingmagazine.com/saba-salman-we… @JoPavlopoulou @AFNCCF @AllWalesPF @Ian_Goldsworthy
New issue out tomorrow Friday 4 July - making the case for more-not less -care and support, rights, advocacy and a focus on festivals, pubs the arts and what helps people thrive. subscribe here ➡️ communitylivingmagazine.com/subscribe/
NEW issue out Friday 4 July - making the case for more -not less- care and support, rights,advocacy and a focus on festivals, pubs the arts and what helps people thrive. Featuring the words and work of @hannahfearn @GeorgeJulian @maryohara1 @seankellyphotos and more
@DrLizHerrieven has written a toolkit – the first of its kind – to help clinicians in hospital emergency departments to understand and communicate with learning disabled people. @RCollEM @SheffChildrens communitylivingmagazine.com/clear-contact-…
Being relentlessly reassessed for benefits is traumatic, with assessors seen as dismissive, patronising and holding all the power. The system needs more than tweaking – it is rotten to the core Prof Chris Hatton @ManMetUni #learningdisability communitylivingmagazine.com/chris-hatton-r…
Presenting research in the form of a comic may seem unorthodox but it has proved to be an excellent way to display findings and send a message about who research is for, says @MKirbyMusic @UniversityLeeds communitylivingmagazine.com/comic-tale-of-…
But 9pm is not a bedtime for an adult! We all need to get out and mix with people. Staring at four walls doesn’t help wellbeing or independence Shalim Ali: people need to know just how much social care involves communitylivingmagazine.com/shalim-ali-peo…
Rachel Wallace checks on the quality of support services @Certitude People with support are great quality checkers as they’re on the inside noticing everyday stuff #learningdisability communitylivingmagazine.com/reality-check/
Thank you @GMB for giving this story the airtime - so many families affected by this.
Uncertainity is shrouding families of children with special educational needs who are reportedly facing losing the legal right to extra support in schools under rumoured proposals being considered by the govt. Ranvir and @robbierinder speak to Carrie Grant and Hayley Harding.
A dreamscape of two future worlds A pastoral idyll or post-industrial desolation? Simon Jarrett sees future worlds expressed through dance How mannequins can come alive is good for dancers with learning disabilities communitylivingmagazine.com/a-dreamscape-o…
The clearrest explanation of why removing legal rights from disabled children would be disastrous in today's Sun by Lisa Lloyd. @bphillipsonMP #SEND @DCPcampaign #GiveItBack @TheSun
Acute liaison nurses are there to help learning disabled patients and teach other staff in the hospital. Jayne Leeson and Anne Marie Glasby describe the way this works and how the approach is to be extended and standardised across the country @UHSussex communitylivingmagazine.com/nurses-on-your…
Risks of hospital neglect revealed A man became ill as he was unable to call for help after his carer died – then poor care in hospital hastened his own death. And risks remain at the hospital, a coroner found. @GeorgeJulian reports communitylivingmagazine.com/risks-of-hospi…
Policies to improve inclusion in the US have been scrapped at the stroke of a presidential pen. The UK could follow suit, with disabled people easy targets @maryohara1 the fragility of hard-won progress is all too clear communitylivingmagazine.com/mary-ohara-the…
