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Independent magazine founded 35 years ago to uphold the right of people to thrive in their community. https://communitylivingmagazine.com/ #LearningDisability #HumanRights #Inclusion Ed @sabasalman.com
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Dec 27
We're an independent, charity-run magazine.

We promote inclusion, equality, human rights and challenge assumptions about #LearningDisability

We're driven by the need and right for people to thrive in their communities. Ed @sabasalman.com Digital @lesteph.com
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The campaigning magazine on equality, inclusion and living life: learning disabilities, care, health, welfare, housing, arts and more
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · 2d
Despite new laws to give parent carers a break, support for disabled children over the summer break remains painfully limited and mothers in particular have to step in, says @shubhanna.bsky.social

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Caring doesn’t take a holiday
Despite new laws to give parent carers a break, support for disabled children over the summer break remains painfully limited and mothers in particular have to step in, says Shubhanna Hussain
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Liz Herrieven @drlizherrieven.bsky.social · 2d
Applications open for PGCert course in meeting the medical needs of adults with learning disability. Relevant for any clinical specialty, and to doctors, senior nurses and AHPs. Fully funded for applicants from England

#MedSky #LearningDisability

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Training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · 5d
New stories out now! As the risk to rights and access continues apace, meet those taking positive action.

Here's @sabasalman.com intro to some of our latest stories.

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Saba Salman: Defiance and unity vital as rights are hit
The UK and US are taking remarkably similar routes when it comes to undermining people’s rights
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Learning Disability England @learningdiseng.bsky.social · 5d
Easy Read: Autism and Paracetamol

Did you see this resource from United Response? It explains in plain language how some people claimed that taking paracetamol during pregnancy might cause autism — and what the evidence actually shows.

Read more here: tinyurl.com/bdhdmwpj
Easy News: Autism and Paracetamol - United Response
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · 7d
New stories out now! As the risk to rights and access continues apace, meet those taking positive action
communitylivingmagazine.com With @maryohara1.bsky.social @propjourn.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social @seankellyphotos.bsky.social @samcarlisle.bsky.social @georgejulian.bsky.social
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The campaigning magazine on equality, inclusion and living life: learning disabilities, care, health, welfare, housing, arts and more
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · 9d
NEW stories out tomorrow Friday 3 Oct, including:
- what's cooking

- UK and US cuts @maryohara1.bsky.social

- EHCP challenge @propjourn.bsky.social

- accessible healthcare @learningdiseng.bsky.social

- Barriers to Adult Life @samcarlisle.bsky.social

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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · 29d
This vital book by Prof Sara Ryan @sarasiobhan.bsky.social
has just been launched, there’s a preview in our current issue communitylivingmagazine.com/when-neglect...
and you can find out more here mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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When neglect is built in
The enjoyment of something as basic as eating can be compromised by social segregation and dental care so poor it could amount to systemic violence, argues Sara Ryan in this extract from her latest bo...
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Sep 9
Front and Centre, by rights-based organisation Changing Our Lives, highlights the lives of 14 people with PMLD.
The project uses family portraiture to share the stories of individuals whose voices are often unheard.
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Made visible through portraits
People with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are rarely represented in the media and the arts, and their personalities and individuality are not often highlighted. A photography proj...
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Aug 26
@iangoldsworthy.bsky.social

The fact that I have to shave my 20-year-old son each morning astonishes people. Our morning routine requires a complicated choreography – and only I know the steps to this dance.

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Ian Goldsworthy: the hairiest of issues when it comes to personal care
The fact that I have to shave my 20-year-old son each morning astonishes people. Our morning routine requires a complicated choreography – and only I know the steps to this dance
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Aug 21
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Nominate now! - Movement for Good awards
We could receive £1,000 in the Movement for Good draw.
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Aug 12
Health staff are being supported to improve care provided to autistic people in mental health services as part of a three-year, charity-run programme
@jopavlopoulou.bsky.social reports @annafreudcharity.bsky.social

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Mental health gets expert input
Autistic people, as experts by experience, are creating multimedia learning materials and working alongside professionals to train staff to improve mental health care. Georgia Pavlopoulou reports
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Aug 7
Del the pig is an invaluable partner to Tilley Milburn, speaking as the ‘voice of reason’ whether at home or on stage.

@seankellyphotos.bsky.social finds out about the life and times of this unusual double act.

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‘I would be nothing without Del’
Del the pig is an invaluable partner to Tilley Milburn, speaking as the ‘voice of reason’ whether at home or on stage. Seán Kelly finds out about the life and times of this unusual double act
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 26
The latest from Community Living cartoonist Robin Meader
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 23
The Care Quality Commission is charged with ensuring care providers are up to standard. @georgejulian.bsky.social describes what action it can take when concerns become apparent.

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When the regulator steps in
The Care Quality Commission is charged with ensuring care providers are up to standard. George Julian describes what action it can take when concerns become apparent
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 16
A pub with a games room and cheap drinks. What more could you want? asks @hannahfearn.bsky.social

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Let’s all drink to our pub
A pub with a games room and cheap drinks. What more could you want? asks Hannah Fearn
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 10
What the right-wing US administration is doing to welfare could be expected – but it is galling that the more left-wing government in the UK is also savaging the benefits system. #WelfareReformBill @maryohara1.bsky.social

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Mary O’Hara: Austerity 2.0 is on its way, courtesy of Labour
What the right-wing US administration is doing to welfare could be expected – but it is galling that the more left-wing government in the UK is also savaging the benefits system
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 8
📻 Looking forward to hearing our writer Simon Jarrett on R4 today at 3.30pm - talking about the history of learning disabilities.

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BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Learning Disabilities
From cruel jibes to institutional care, a history of people with learning disabilities.
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 5
New issue is out - amid chaos, confusion and cuts to welfare, read about why we need more - not less - support, rights and advocacy. Featuring @hannahfearn.bsky.social @sabasalman.com @maryohara1.bsky.social @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social + more
#WelfareReform
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Saba Salman: We can all agree on the basics of a good life
We know what people need not only to survive, but thrive
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 3
New issue out tomorrow Friday 4 July - making the case for more - not less - care and support, rights, advocacy and a focus on festivals, pubs the arts and what helps people thrive.

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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 2
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jul 2
NEW issue out Friday 4 July - making the case for
more -not less- care and support, rights,advocacy and a focus on festivals, pubs the arts and what helps people thrive. Featuring the words and work of @hannahfearn.bsky.social @georgejulian.bsky.social @maryohara1.bsky.social and more
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jun 24
@drlizherrieven.bsky.social has written a toolkit – the first of its kind – to help clinicians in hospital emergency departments to understand and communicate with learning disabled people. @sheffieldchildrens.bsky.social

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Clear contact in emergency care
A doctor has written a toolkit – the first of its kind – to help clinicians in hospital emergency departments to understand and communicate with learning disabled people. Saba Salman reports
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Jim Blair 🇪🇺🇺🇦⚒️🪩🕴🏼 @jimgblair.bsky.social · Jun 17
www.seeability.org/news/seeability-releases-new-eye-care-film

It gives all the key messages about people with learning disabilities being more likely to have a problem with their eyes, and busts some myths, including that anyone can have a sight test with the right adjustments.
SeeAbility releases new film to improve eye care for people with learning disabilities
SeeAbility has launched a new short film for Learning Disability Week to raise awareness how people with learning disability can get support with eye care.
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Community Living Magazine @communitylivingmagazine.com · Jun 17
Being relentlessly reassessed for benefits is traumatic, with assessors seen as dismissive, patronising and holding all the power. The system needs more than tweaking – it is rotten to the core. Prof Chris Hatton @manmetuni.bsky.social
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Chris Hatton: repeated assessments serve only to ration and humiliate
Being relentlessly reassessed for benefits is traumatic, with assessors seen as dismissive, patronising and holding all the power. The system needs more than tweaking – it is rotten to the core
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