#Carer

Ewan Gurr

EwanGurr

Week 1/52: When Caitlin, having moved away from family for work loses her job, applies for Universal Credit two weeks before Christmas and uses first payment to repay a loan

Rachel Tomlinson

BarrowfordHead

Thread:The Punishment of Rewards.As many of you know, Barrowford Primary School is reward and sanction free.There are many and varied reasons for this.1/ There is usually a lot of interest

SQA: Where's Our Say?

SQAOurSay

THREAD: 1 of 20Last week we wrote about how narrow the appeals process is this year. See the grounds in this article: https://www.tes.com/news/sqa-results-urgent-need-student-centred-appealsSQA have acknowledged that they only anticipate th

A_tistic Theatre

ActualA_tistic

An obituary for @myceliorum, a titan of disability advocacy.This is going to be long. Amelia "Mel" "Voicy" Baggs, also once known as Amanda Baggs, was angry, and insightful, and changed

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sglaisteryoung

dinner’s in the oven.the kids are in care.let’s talk #mentalhealth .candidly.disclaimer: i come at this from the perspective of a child of someone with severe mental health issues. this isn’t

Sophie Walker

SophieRunning

"We're looking at the disease as a medical model, not through an intersectional lens" so lacking gendered analysis or understanding of contributory economic conditions - Pragna Patel from @SBSisters on

Andy Davies

adavies4

‘Don’t take this place from me, this is a lifeline’Ellen Guy, 69, from Abersychan in South Wales, talking to me in January about the Carers Hub she used to visit

Margot Cleveland

ProfMJCleveland

For four days, DNC Convention paraded folks on screen to tell us that Joe Biden was the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being they've ever known in their life.

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW/EXC: GPs and end-of-life carers calling for a relaxation of the "Shipman" rules over controlled drugs after some patients face unnecessarily distressing #coronavirus deaths at home because of delays in

Sam Connor

criprights

Some people are asking why independent #NDIS assessors are a bad thing.This decision will kill women like me.In order to understand this, you need to look hard at what govt

Luke Michael

luke_michael96

Much has been made of the fact Newstart hasn't increased in real terms since 1994. But why has the freeze gone on so long? Let's look back at how we

Louise Tickle 🕷

louisetickle

Morning all. Am getting ready to live tweet the @HfdsCouncil Extraordinary General Meeting, starting at 10am, following the judgment of Mr Justice Keehan in a case where the council has

💧Corporate Governance

CorpGovResearch

The webinar to #Anglicare #Newmarch responsible persons of #agedcare residents affected by the #covid outbreak is here. A long discussion thread follows. #agedcarerc #auspol @ScottMorrisonMP @albomp @greghuntmp @richardmcolbeck @bradhazzard @gladysb

Dr Girish Vaidya

DrGirishPsych

#LearningDisability, #obesity #inclusiveCycling and #COVID19 (a thread)@BorisJohnson own experience of #COVID19 may have stirred this decision - particularly good if is also included.However, it would be good if those

Calla Wahlquist

callapilla

Andrews: "Whilst I never thought that I would be telling people not to go to work, that is what we have to do in order to stop the spread of

Blak Lives Matter

JessHealyWalton

I really want to like @LoveYourGarden2, but the amount of ableism in the eps with disabled family members is staggering. They need a disabled editor / consultant *badly*, and they