I’ll really have no tongue left on me the amount of biting it I’m having to do on here today.

#BreakingNews

After Disabled people raised concerns about timing of the 'Fair and Affordable Care' consultation, Bristol City Council has extended deadline to reply to 31st Jan 2024

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Join our 3rd online Community of Practice meeting on 23 Nov, where we support ongoing learning about LGBTQ+ inclusion in residential care.

The wonderful Trish Hafford-Letchfield (she/hers) will present on the LGBTQ+ Learning Framework she developed with Skills for Care

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Lovely coming together of research expertise and research need in Bristol as Angeliki Papadaki University of Bristol talks about her 'meals on wheels' research with Bristol City Council funded by NIHR School for Social Care Research

The consolation of a rainbow.

Has the list of things to be properly, properly outraged about ever been so long and wretched?

Call for PhD research participants!
Please share and contact if you are interested, there is a video in the next tweet!

A thrilling new senior leadership role in the next phase of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.

Calling all writers!

Submissions are now open for our next Crips with Chips & this time we’re Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres.

If you're Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent we invite you to submit a 10-20 minute play responding to the prompt ‘a fork in the road' by 30 Nov.

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A cwtch from Prof Liz Lloyd at Paul Willis ‘send-off’. Wonderful speeches from A May Cameron and the social work team that made us cry. Lovely and fitting ‘adieu’.

What I’ve observed locally is a commissioner who felt the future of learning disability services should be based largely on a ‘cafe and trips out’ model and showed councilors a video to ‘prove it’. Most Councilors with no real knowledge of the issues were persuaded.