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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

On Friday, we had a great first meeting with a new oversight group - people with learning disabilities, autistic people & family carers. They will be giving feedback on our team's research. We've been calling them the Critical Friends group, but watch this space - they're working on a better name!

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Wales ‘It had felt like David and Goliath.’ Didn’t know about JR, accusations against her unfounded, up against experienced barristers. No level playing field, no justice. A son who continues to be inappropriately placed, far from home. openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/05/19/u...

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Unsuccessful Application for Permission to Appeal

By Claire Martin, 19th May 2025 In May 2024, a year ago, Amanda Hill blogged about this case: “The protected party in this case (“L”) is a man in his twenties with “significant learning disability”…

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland. Aktion T4. The caption to these pictures discuss the cost to the state of the annual keep up of people with disabilities. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Wales and north of England face disability cuts ‘double whammy’

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Should benefit claimants risk having their bank accounts spied upon and driving licences revoked? I don’t think so | Neil Duncan-Jordan

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The SHRC appeared before the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee to discuss their report. The detention of people with LD and autism is a human rights issue. Their work here regarding the CRPD and HR Act is so important. www.scottishhumanrights.com/blog/tick-to...

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“Tick Tock” While we talk, people are waiting

“Tick Tock” – While we talk, people are waiting

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1. It has been one year since Stolen Lives protested outside the Senedd. Detention of people with learning disabilities and autistic people is a human rights issue. It results in harm, abuse and long-term trauma.

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Naomi L. Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I should have tagged @dawnc05.bsky.social in this thread! Thank you Dawn 👏

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Sue Caton @suecaton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Absolutely brilliant talk by @dawnc05.bsky.social today at @learningmet.bsky.social. Not easy to listen to the awful experiences she shares, but so in awe of the Dawn’s commitment to challenge and protest.

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medmentalhealth.bsky.social @medmentalhealth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

We are very pleased to share our refreshed project website with our new information toolkit resources to support people with learning disabilities with mental health medications www.medmentalhealth.net @profkrc.bsky.social @dawnc05.bsky.social @learningmet.bsky.social @chrishutchrnld.bsky.social

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Medications and My Mental Health

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

#StolenLives says NO to cuts #DisabilityBenefits #WelfareNotWarfare People with learning disabilities and their families are already struggling. People are hospitalised because services and support are not there. Please do not make an already bad situation worse.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits. As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.

But Reeves herself seems in no mood to back down. In an interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, where she was responding to the growth figures, Reeves was asked about the plans for welfare cuts. She replied:

We will set out our plans for welfare reform, but it is absolutely clear that the current system is not working for anyone.
It is not working for people who need support, it’s not working to get people into work so that more people can fulfil their potential, and it’s not working for the taxpayer when the bill for welfare is going up by billions of pounds in the next few years.
So, we do need to get a grip. We need to spend more on national defence, but we need to reform our public services, and we need to reform our broken welfare system.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Balancing the books cannot come at the expense of those who can least afford it If you are concerned about these planned cuts please Contact your MP now and ask them not to support this appalling plan - now is the time to lobby the government to step back from this before it’s too late

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Rightful Lives @rightfullives.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the video of the webinar about the Mental Health Bill that we co-hosted with Oliver Lewis at Doughty Street Chambers last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM53...

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A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024 - Autism and learning disability

YouTube video by Doughty Street Chambers

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

People with learning disabilities are being neglected in homes run by one of the UK’s largest private care companies, with one vulnerable resident filmed eating out of a bin and another left with an untreated infection causing his foot to rot. www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It is not a tragedy that people with learning disabilities and autistic people spend much of their lives locked up in hospitals. This isn’t bad fortune. It is deliberate state sanctioned harm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

‘The basis of eugenics’: Elon Musk and the menacing return of the R-word

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Rightful Lives @rightfullives.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Rightful Lives is co-hosting an event on 4th March at Doughty Street Chambers. It will look at the implications of the Mental Health Bill for autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Why not come along! www.doughtystreet.co.uk/event/deep-d...

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A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024

A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024Detention and treatmentThursday 27th February 2025 | 18:00 - 19:30Location: Online via ZoomIn the second webinar of this series Sophy Miles and Elizabeth Cl...

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My piece reflecting on life, love, loss and learning disabilities following the death of my daughter www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We know that people with learning disabilities experience high levels of health inequality, but there is something even more dangerous about removing the 75% target for AHCs (England) when we are rebuilding from the pandemic, which saw the removal and scaling back of services.

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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 29/01/2025

I broke down sobbing over the state of the world this morning while I was feeding the cats. But you have to keep going, cats will need more food.

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Public Law Project @publiclawproject.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚨 BREAKING: We are delighted to share that our client @ellenclifford.bsky.social has won her case against the DWP over an unlawful consultation held on reforms tightening the #WorkCapabilityAssessment. These reforms would lead to over 400,000 people being worse off by at least £416 a month.

PLP lawyer Aoife O'Reilly and Ellen Clifford in front of the Royal Courts of Justice.

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

What would further cuts to Disability Benefits mean for you? Let us know: Comment below, or send us a DM. You can also email us, or send a text email: hello@campaignfordisabilityjustice.org.uk Text: 07732 901 121 In strictest confidence

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

With Government announcements on changes to Disability Benefits due in the Spring, we’re looking for evidence from our supporters on the impact any potential cuts could have ⬇️

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in the background.
Foreground text: What would further cuts to Disability Benefits mean for you?
Let us know:
Comment below, or send us a DM.

You can also email us, or send a text...

email: hello@campaignfordisabilityjustice.org.uk
Text: 07732 901 121

In strictest confidence

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

'They gave her a bed to die in because she had Down's Syndrome.' So sad to hear that John Sullivan has died. He fought to keep going so that he could give evidence to the inquiry about his daughter Susie who had Down's syndrome. Watch here: 0-40 mins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5UZ...

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UK Covid19 Inquiry Module 3 Hearing PM 10 September 2024

YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

'Councils are often desperately short of money. But many of them have long histories of being institutionally hostile to challenge and scrutiny from people they tend to see as pushy parents. So they stubbornly fight, and usually lose.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Children with special needs are now the focus of the culture war and the budget debate – Labour must tread carefully | John Harris

With the yawning gap between available funding and rising demand, parents are right to fear the government’s reaction, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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