Dave Atkinson

Why we must secure the future of learning disability nurses - Learning Disability Today This article outlines the unique contribution of learning disability nurses in addressing the health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability and their families.

www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/topic/health...

Positive Commitment 2025 full speaker line up @everyone : dma-solutions.co.uk/events/upcom...

Strong Message Here - Be Quiet, Small Man - BBC Sounds Helen and Armando investigate how politicians convey strength through rhetoric.

New #StrongMessageHere is up, on #BBCSounds and all podcast platforms. This week, ‘Be quiet, small man.’ The language used by ‘strong’ leaders. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Yesterday, RRN’s Alexis Quinn, with My Life My Choice, Free Our People Now campaign and the British Institute of Human Rights, gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, on amendments to the Mental Health Bill to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Positive Commitment Conference 2025 ~ Winchester This event is for qualified RNLDs and RNIDs to attend and was developed as a partner event to Positive Choices which is specifically for LD and ID Nurse students. Not to be confused. This qualified...

Positive Commitment Conference 2025 - calling all LD Nurses! dma-solutions.co.uk/events/upcom...
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A picture of the hotel still smouldering at nighttime. It has been totally gutted by fire and the roof has collapsed. Fire engines are on the scene

NEW: Multiple reports of Russian missiles pouring into Ukraine tonight, targeting civilians.

The US has shut off the intelligence Ukraine needs to protect itself.

This hotel in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih took a direct hit.

Trump has the blood on his hands of every Ukrainian casualty tonight.

Yeah but he's expecting to be given Gaza in exchange...

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country.
They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Signed! Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Justice for AP: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust pays damages following detention and seclusion of man with learning disabilities and autism for 340 days The High Court has approved the settlement of a civil claim brought by Bindmans client ‘AP’, by which Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust will pay significant damages for the detention and treatment

AP is a lovely young man with learning disabilities and autism. He experienced significant harm while being detained in a "s.136 suite" in a mental health hospital for a whopping 340 days. A Human Rights Act claim has resulted in a settlement. 1/4 www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/justice...

Mental health patients with nowhere to go cost NHS £71m in England, report finds Accommodation shortages caused 109,000 days of delayed discharge in 2023-24, says National Housing Federation

In my 35 years in #mentalhealth poor #housing or a lack of has always been the thing that causes significant and enduring harm. Supported accommodation that is safe and close to one’s community is too hard to find. This is an important piece of research 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Support for children and young people with special educational needs - NAO report The NAO's report highlights that England’s special educational needs system is not delivering better outcomes for children and young people.

If you want detail and charts, read the National Audit Office report. www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...

Hello Blueskylings. I thought I'd introduce myself by sharing this wonderful poem about hope and redemption. Have a lovely day.

Feeling it in Yorkshire!!

Safeguarding children with disabilities in residential settings: progress report Progress report for the review into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex health needs in residential settings by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

Safeguarding children with disabilities in residential settings: progress reporp
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Trying to find my people/those with similar interests here and the #LearningDisability results I'm getting are minimal, so started trying to curate this list go.bsky.app/J6k8Rsr

As per, shout if you'd like added. I know I am missing people. All welcome #carer #intellectualdisability #LDNursing

Good to see you over here Steve!!

All good... New boat to play with!!

@bennob.bsky.social good to see you over here Ben... Hope all's well...

Good to see you over here Gary... Felt increasingly ethically compromised over recent months whenever I used Twitter... Far less toxicity here...

@chris-dlamini.bsky.social good to see you on here Chris - presumably another twitter/X refugee!!!

Thanks for that... As a recent exile from twitter has been struggling to find many people with shared interests on here!! Cheers...