#Carers

Don't really have time or space for a big thread on it but just wanted to bring together these two things really. It's the same thing but.1) #ukhousing was one
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When tackling #COVID19, why is #intersectionality important? Looking only at associations between deprivation & mortality OR gender and mortality, you miss the steep inequalities experienced by poor women. Perhaps even
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It's #InternationalDayForOlderPersons and time to change the way we treat older people. That starts with the way we talk about them - https://homeshareuk.org/channel-4s-lodgers-for-codgers-our-statement/ It's time we celebrated olde
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So... I've been quiet for a while, huh?Shortly after I posted my last tweet about Dad's heart attack he had a stroke... and while the doctors were treating him for
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3 weeks into the Covid-19 situation, and the effects on life for those with autism cannot be understated. For Donal, his routines are broken, his life has been turned upside
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Let me get this right. The more I have read the more concerned I have been getting. The NDIA aren't going to provide medical reports and assessors won't have access
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We're NOT on lockdown. You might be.. but non essential workers being forced to go to work piled onto public transport. Airports open no quarantine no testing rambling straight onto
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It’s back to school week for many of us in the UK (Thread alert! 1/9): Are we all ready for children walking, cycling to school? Asking all drivers to take
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Thank you Fiona ...but it's not just unemployed people being forced onto cards. People on DSP, Carers pension, students, non dva eligible vets and every c'link payment except OAP and
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My beloved GodSquad: your author needs you. My new MG Series, VI SPY (illustrations by the fabulous Jez Tuya) is coming into the world in Feb. These are tricky times
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Some interesting stuff about clinicians as ‘wounded healers’ on Twitter; varied views and strong feelings. Nobody asked me, so I’m going to share my take on being a doctor with
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I know there is lots of anxiety tonight and questions still to be answered for schools but just some thoughts about how we have supported our community so far...***Staying Connected
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A-Level & University Chaos Help threadStudents attending disadvantaged & non-high performing schools especially people from lower socio-economic backgrounds have been negatively hurt by the Tory algorithm.I'm trying to create a
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Reminder for those wondering what my position is, re autism.I'm autistic.I'm a parent of a fab autistic son who has higher support needs and works with me and our team.For
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I keep seeing a very lazy argument that Ireland failed healthcare workers, due to high infection rates, yet nobody ever mentions how few deaths.Cases of Healthcare Workers: 7,819Deaths of Healthcare
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SEND, Behaviour & Lockdown.A thread https://michhayw.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/send-behaviour-lockdown/ An edited version of this piece will appear on the TeachWire site, https://www.teachwire.net/search/97fcaa189137af2d18908ee64ace69e0/
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