Community Living Magazine

My son can get a pass to ride a roller-coaster and wear a sunflower lanyard to get support in a shop – but a visit to a hospital emergency department proves both distressing and fruitless. https://lnkd.in/dKuUMnZc

The 2024 #Paralympics open tonight so our latest issue looks at inclusion in sports for people with learning disabilities and how inaccessible transport, inappropriate equipment and negative stereotypes can be fixed. https://lnkd.in/eNdACRaM Sense and THE ELFRIDA SOCIETY

Suddenly deciding to close a supported living scheme without consulting residents could amount to a breach of their human rights and of other legal duties Kathryn Gooding Irwin Mitchell reports. https://lnkd.in/eD3YJVzk

Leadership roles that combine firsthand experience of learning disability with an operational view gives a wider perspective of a trust and its work. Johann Kyriacou talks to Andrew Bright and Sara Danby Thera Trust about making their positions work and how they can bring ‘magic’ https://lnkd.in/eJzNHBxR

My son can get a pass to ride a roller-coaster and wear a sunflower lanyard to get support in a shop – but a visit to a hospital emergency department proves both distressing and fruitless. 📸 Seán Kelly https://lnkd.in/dKuUMnZc

A range of exercise and training opportunities are being designed around the desires of people who often cannot access or afford them. Maria Dolly Galvis Zapata and Nikki Chivers THE ELFRIDA SOCIETY report on a local success. https://lnkd.in/eVZ4rkv4

Fears have arisen that claiming sickness benefits will become harder, amid claims people are being written off as unfit for work reports Charlie Callanan https://lnkd.in/eJVWXEcD

Many more people with complex disabilities are taking up new sports – sensory versions of badminton, snooker and rounders – at whatever level that suits them. Louis Wickett-Padgham reports Sense https://lnkd.in/eNdACRaM

People detained in mental health hospitals are being supported by peers who understand from first-hand experience what they are going through. Tackling isolation was the driving force behind the Buddies Project – a pioneering pilot initiative that has aimed to improve autistic people and people with learning disabilities’ quality of life in hospital Ben Higgins reports. Bild Restraint Reduction Network https://lnkd.in/e23WZspY

With a new government, politicians and policymakers need to do more about the incarceration of people with learning disabilities in institutions. Saba Salman reports on campaigns focusing on the issues. VoiceAbility BASW UK #JusticeforLB https://lnkd.in/d2TxzCXd