Clare Slaney
@clareslaney
Using this page mainly as a digital scrapbook, to keep interesting bits of news and opinion where I can find them.
Terrible indictment of our times. A very ill mum died despite phoning an ambulance & her daughter with Downs died probably through starvation. They were not found for months. Not a tragic situation it's about the breakdown of our services & communities nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…
Summary of the pomposity of experts.
This actually happened. In college I published some short stories and poetry. It made a little bit of money to pay for textbooks and whatnot. When I took my Deaf Ed certification test, I was breezing through when I came across a poem. The question was about the author's…
This actually happened. In college I published some short stories and poetry. It made a little bit of money to pay for textbooks and whatnot. When I took my Deaf Ed certification test, I was breezing through when I came across a poem. The question was about the author's…
i once worked as a live-in nanny for 3 small kids in hawaii. the parents were burnt out and didn’t really like parenting. they had 2 nannies covering 7am-8pm 7 days a week. the dad worked a few hours a day and the mom didn’t work. years later i saw the dad had started a blog…
tinyurl.com/5n8z96x9 via @fightbk4justice "A new Government report looking at PiP & anxiety has just been released, it finds that: The PIP claims journey itself is a significant source of anxiety. Several stages in the process were particularly anxiety-inducing:..."
When Business Devours the Profession On trusteeship, ethics, and the culture of therapy tinyurl.com/4sben2ke
After my dad died, we were given a 30-day eviction notice and were nearly forced onto the street right after losing him. That’s why succession rights exist, Tom. Stability, security and affordability shouldn’t just be reserved for people whose parents leave them a house in the…
What possible defence is there for someone *inheriting* social housing? It seems to be an utterly perverse system of taxpayer funded privilege. A feudal right to live in a valuable property, often in the most expensive areas of the country, just because a relative lived there.
Anyone who thinks 66 is a reasonable retirement age is either too young to know better or has spent their life in comfort. For the working class, it's a death sentence. Decades of low pay, exhausting hours, failing healthcare, and poor nutrition take their toll. Life expectancy…
“When the political and media class wish to leave disabled people hungry and dirty, the disabled community must explain why we should be allowed to eat and be clean.” Today’s col. reflects on a tough month and what it all means for disability in the U.K. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
What is a working person? The govt has said it won't raise taxes on 'working people'. There may be a clue. There's a definition within childcare rules, eg funded childcare or tax free childcare eligibility. There to count as being 'working'... - No individual can earn over…
Regular update on how many jobs there are for disabled people, according to DWP Find a Job All Jobs: 110,705 Fully Remote (formerly "home working"): 651 + Disability confident: 70 + part time: 11 But 2 of the "home working" jobs are in care homes, so its actually 9 NINE
This is the harshest of truths but if you are bereaved by tragedy last month, last year, 10 years ago, 30 years ago central government is not your friend. The cleverest thing I have seen state do in the last decade is instil hopium in families that they are all in this together
In the next 30 years, £5.5trn will pass from one generation to the next, much of it unearned wealth from house price growth since the 1990s. Not taxing it would be insane
Inheritance tax should be abolished.