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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

@midlandmencap.bsky.social will be hosting FREE Learning Disability Awareness Training on Wed 18th June 10-12pm for those working and volunteering in Health and Social Care, VCSE sector and CIC’s. Session co-delivered by an expert by experience. Booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-d...

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Learning Disability Awareness Training

To celebrate Learning Disability Awareness Week Midland Mencap is offering FREE training to those who work in VCFSE, Education & Health.

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

To support a safe hospital discharge @midlandmencap.bsky.social widened a doorway & added a ramp—making the home fully accessible. ✅ Hospital stay shortened ✅ Tenancy secured ✅ Independence maintained With smart planning & quick action, people can recover where they belong: at home

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Great news #Worcester, @midlandmencap.bsky.social is launching a new inclusive music project in the city. Starting on the 20th March and facilitated by a professional musician everyone is welcome to join the fun. Details below, you can also scan the barcode for more info and booking arrangements

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

On the day the last pints of Banks’s Mild are pulled in the Black Country this abomination. What has happened to us?

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

One for @mikeewins.bsky.social, the mighty Carlisle United rollin’ through the West Midlands on a Tuesday evening, where they’re off to🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My first Villa Park game was 57 years ago almost to the day. So many memories as we commemorated 150 years of @avfc-official.bsky.social tonight. Great to get the win and to be able to share an emotional night on The Holte with my sons and grandson. We did not choose, we were chosen #avfc

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Living Well Consortium is recruiting for a VCFSE Partnership Manager to champion the influence of the VCFSE Sector across Birmingham and Solihull. The role is funded by the BSOL Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, and Autism Provider Collaborative urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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VCFSE Partnership Manager - Living Well UK | Free Mental Health Services

We would love for you to apply to work with us at Living Well. We provide Free mental health services to people of Birmingham

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I suspect other factors are at play too, lack of access to meaningful and person centred social work, access to advocacy support, ad hoc eligibility decisions at funding panels and a a system that for most is confusing, impenetrable and consequently’impossible’ to navigate #socialcare

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Why work in social care, even if you’re paid the real living wage of £12.60ph, most get minimum wage, jobs laden with regulation, responsibility & accountability when with no experience you can work in a supermarket warehouse and earn £16.48ph? Caring for people or caring for dried goods #socialcare

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Nice one Wes Streeting, I’m here for this, I’d pay good money to watch the sour faced Cerberus that holds sway at our GP surgery go through training. There’s a fly on the wall in this for Channel4

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This, the money is there, but the political will is sadly lacking. Remember the solution is always political and ideological #socialcare #socialcarecrisis

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David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...

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Health and Social Care Committee Chair Comment - Committees - UK Parliament

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

“Soon there will be nothing left to reform”. Why the care sector is impatient for the government’s new care commission to come up with answers, rather than just recap the same old problems. www.itv.com/news/2025-01...

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Wes Streeting might manage to produce a social care plan by 2028. By then, Labour will be in its last inglorious days in office. How did people as incompetent as this ever reach high office in the UK?

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The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians

As Politico notes this morning: Health Secretary Wes Streeting is kicking off the government’s first round of morning TV and radio interviews for almost a fortnight as the festive lull ends with a jol...

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It’s the BIG 40!! Yes, 2025 marks my fortieth year working in #socialcare, the vast majority in #Birmingham. I’ve added a few more thoughts and reminiscences in the pic below. If I was to write a book I don’t think many people would believe the story I could tell📖

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Fantastic to welcome so many people to Midland Mencap’s community Christmas lunch. Great food, presents and 🥂So glad everyone had such a good time sharing Christmas Day together, well done to everyone involved 🎅🎄 #Birmingham #ChristmasDinner

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

A huge 👏👏to colleagues and fab volunteers for spending part of Christmas Day preparing our 5th community Xmas lunch. We’ve nearly 40 people coming who otherwise would have been alone today. And thanks to Northfield Community Partnership and Northfield NNS for their generous support 🍽️ #Birmingham

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Oh great, more research to tell us exactly what plenty of informed minds already know and could help deliver with their eyes shut 🙄

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

If you work with children and families in #Birmingham let them know about these FREE fun holiday events from Ways for Wellbeing CIC coming up during the festive period. All the details below #ChildrenandFamilies

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Always boils my blood this one, we’d be naive to think they act altruistically. They have the cures and therapies and the means to transform millions of lives, but big biotec and Pharma just don’t want us to have them. They need to keep us sick

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Angela Catley @angelacat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Listened to your excellent show today @mrjamesob.bsky.social Gentle challenge to the concept of 'moving people INTO social care'. Social care is not a destination (even if the media see everything as care homes). Social care is help to live your life your way. It's all of us & our futures.

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

For those of us who have been around long enough to remember Blair’s toothless Compact then without urgent funds and meaningful and purposeful co-produced reform it will look just like Compact 2, covered in dust and quietly put out to grass. We need more than reports, documents and rhetoric.

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

What a magical morning at the Families Together at Christmas concert. Unbelievably we’re in our 10th year and what absolute privilege to be celebrating in the wonderful surrounds of Birmingham Symphony Hall. Wonderful performances and a really lovely Christmasy vibe #Birmingham

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Access to quality housing is a critical indicator in wellbeing. Ensuring a safe, secure home is a central pillar of Midland Mencap's mission and vision. This is our latest bungalow refurbishment awaiting new tenants who will move in next week #Birmingham #LearningDisability

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Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today's speech by Keir Starmer will be a sobering reminder that the govt has 5 key 'missions' and #socialcare isn't one of them. But the missions can't be fully delivered without social care and ultimately the govt will have to grasp that. Quick thread. news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...

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Sir Keir Starmer to unveil 'plan for change' - what is it and why now?

The prime minister won big in the summer but is struggling to punch through. On Thursday, he will reveal a checklist by which voters can judge him come the next general election.

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Shameful, and those who can affect change are well aware which makes it even worse. At a meeting yesterday a GP argued that applying a quality standard to annual health checks would mean GP’s not been able to undertake them. Like they’d put their flash cars in for half an MOT 🙄😳

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Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“A royal commission would be one route out of the impasse. Unless he has identified another one, Wes Streeting should take it.” ⁦‪@guardian‬⁩ has this right. The government is in the woods on #socialcare so should get someone else to find a way out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on social care: reformers must reclaim the initiative | Editorial

Editorial: Labour pledged ‘deep reform’ of this flawed and complex system. A royal commission could shape a consensus

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Busy day, including doing a brilliant podcast with students from St Paul’s Academy, at the PURE Expo event at Villa Park with a wide range of speakers joining together to address issues of inequalities impacting employment opportunities in #Birmingham

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Really looking forward to taking part in the PURE Expo. The PURE Project supports people with complex barriers towards education, training and employment. PURE partners, including Midland Mencap, have worked with more than 5,000 people across Birmingham to build confidence, develop new skills

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is the way forward, it still doesn’t mean the Bill should pass, or that we would ever have the right safeguards in place, or resolve the reality of coercion or bias, but at least we would be further forwarding on understanding principles of choice #AssistedDyingBill

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Responding to questions in the House of Commons today, Lisa Nandy said the previous government “silenced and gagged” charities and said the Labour administration was “protecting our charities” I’d love a clear and straightforward answer as to how you’re doing that 😳 #Charities #ThirdSector

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ended the day at the footy. I’m a huge fan of TIFO displays, #AVFC’s last night was outstanding, took me back to watching Villa in the late 60’s & 70’s when this was such a recognisable image. The club should definitely use it more going forward, distinctly ours in a world full of rampant lions

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Park that we were robbed by a dreadful refereeing decision and hold the thought we’re playing Champions League football. Another brilliant night at Villa Park #UTV

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Much to reflect on after the WMCA Reducing Disability Inequalities Summit. Here’s one of the biggest barriers to address, meaningful employment. Just look at data for adults with a learning disability. I’d bet it’s even lower for Birmingham. Pressure now on the Government Get Britain Working plans

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I’m at the @WestMids_CA led Reducing Disability Inequalities Summit, really looking forward to spending the day with colleagues driving the agenda to make the West Midlands an exemplar region for citizens with lived experience of disability to thrive #WestMidlands #ReducingDisabilityInequalityWM

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

WTF is this? Shocked but not at all surprised. Don’t for one minute think this is isolated treatment of both children and adults with autism and learning disabilities in too many institutional settings. It utterly shames us. Don’t look the other way either urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

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CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room

Police have said staff will not face action over abuse of autistic children shown in videos leaked to the BBC.

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A fab session at Midland Mencap facilitated by Volunteering Matters and Deloitte supporting five voluntary and community orgs to explore how social media can be better used to raise visibility, awareness and connect to the public and funders/donors. Two sectors working together for social impact

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Elon’s not going to be pleased🙄

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The proposed legislation is so flawed in its desire to race to an outcome it’s actually scary. The open letter succinctly explains why #AssistedDying #Disability

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our exhibition of 8 decades of life at Midland Mencap. In marking 75 years of the charity’s work it charts the lives of people with a learning disability in Birmingham/West Midlands since 1949. We have some incredible material to tell the story with, a story that needs telling #learningdisability

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Due to subsidence, caused by badgers excavating under our building, we’ve had to demolish part of our community hub. It’s a sad loss of delivery space but we will do all we can to replace it asap. The medieval moat of Weoley Castle is in the background of the video #Birmingham #voluntarysector

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Today’s the day!! We’re thrilled to be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding @MidlandMencapUK (Birmingham Mencap). The weather has abated so we’re really looking forward to our day. And as promised, there’s cake!! #Birmingham #WestMidlands

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Dave Rogers @daverogersmmceo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Having just driven down the #WestMidlands stretch of the M5 and then onto the #Birmingham Road the utterly reckless failure to maintain the gullies and drains has meant significant and dangerous flooding of the carriageways. Yes, the weathers horrendous but that’s no excuse for neglecting safety

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