New book is out today which is exciting (terrifying). Full details are here. You can get 20% off with this code 25AFLY2 which is cool.
It’s a grim read. In the preface, the series editors, Antonia Lyons and Kerry Chamberlain write:
This book is at times a distressing read, being ultimately about human rights, who they are and are not afforded to, and who is colluding in human rights abuses. We all – researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, charities and anyone engaged in this field – need to be thinking much more critically about people with learning disabilities and our responsibilities for and towards them, and consider how complicit we are in both disavowing the ordinary aspects of everyday life and other people with learning disabilities.
I spent a year reading research and writing about people with learning disabilities and concluded a whole swathe of people are involved in these entrenched failings, either wilfully or ignorantly. Until this group wake up to this and act, people will continue to die years earlier than their non-disabled peers.
The book is dense with references so I’ve produced a summary which is more accessible. Many thanks to those who fed back on earlier drafts of this. It is a nifty document that should be shared with all those I mention in the previous paragraph.
mydaftlife 
Thanks Sara
Ordered! I’ve been looking forward to this however harrowing a read it will be! I dread to think of the tears that have and will flow!
Just fyi the code wouldn’t work with the * at the end but works without!
Sending love and very best wishes
KatieP 🤗
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Thanks Katie! x
Learning disabled people die avoidably and too young.
Where are the social workers. (No question mark.)
Do they leave or do they stay as a foot soldier in this holocaust of other peoples son’s and daughters. Assess ‘others’ as least and cheapest, is not a SW promise.
Nor is exploit the caring people who are paid the least.
Social Workers, why no outrage?
Statutory leaders.
1.Paid eye watering salaries; gifted eye watering life benefits to deliver objectives:
– ‘remove it, reduce it. Close it down and shut it.’
2.Close Services that offer residual oversight of the health and well-being of learning disabled people who have no other. Promise community options that you know are not there.
3. Make silenced people more invisible.
No outrage here.
The talkers.
Well paid to talk about what they all know – they already know. But do it in a co-production way.
What would they all do if the talking worked?
Who today leads an honest visible protest ? Who speaks up ? Stands in the rain to protest – day after day?
Who digs and then gets into the trench to save a beloved life ?
A mum and a dad.
Who stands by the grave.
And gets blamed.
Learning disabled people suffer because self interest rewards where it should bring shame.
And too many beautiful beloved people – die from it.
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