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BuDS Disability Service

@buds-disability.bsky.social

BuDS Disability Service is a user-led, pan-disability grassroots charity working across England. Formerly Buckinghamshire Disability Service. Registered Charity 1102511 #Fair4All #Reach4Work

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Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 11h ago

Protect your health and that of those around you, because the government aren’t stepping up. Wear A respirator - ffp2/3 Open Windows #CleanTheAir - Use. a Hepa air purifier Vaccinate if you can afford it. Risks are to all #Longcovid #Airborne #Vascular

BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · yesterday

Covid infection levels in England have jumped this week, although remaining at historically low levels. With 1 in every 1549 people in England now infected as of 2 August, we have increased the BuDS Covid infection risk level from Low to Moderately Low. A thread 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · 3d ago

Disability is a political hot topic and there's fake information being spread. So we've produced this handy infographic showing how many disabled people there really are in England & Wales. This is free to share to combat false narratives around disabled people. A thread 🧵

A BuDS infographic headed "How Many Disabled People Are There? (England & Wales)". There are three overlapping coloured circles with labels of the same colour. In the centre of the circles is a picture of a wheelchair-user with his arms spread wide as if in welcome or show. The biggest yellow circle is labelled “People self-identifying as disabled to some extent in the 2021 Census: 10.5 million”. The middle-sized teal green circle is labelled “Disabled people meeting Equality Act definition: 6.6 million (approx.)”. The smallest dull orange circle is labelled “Disabled people receiving PIP: 4 million”.
BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · last wk.

The Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has said that the ‘fixing’ of palliative and social care must happen before any steps are taken towards legalising assisted dying or assisted suicide. Read our full statement on our website. 1/3 buds.org.uk/shelve-assis...

Shelve assisted dying plans until after social and palliative care is fixed, says Andy Burnham

The Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has said that the ‘fixing’ of palliative and social care must happen before any steps are taken towards legalising assisted dying or assisted suicide.

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Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · last wk.

Thanks to @buds-disability.bsky.social for their amazing hard work on keeping us all updated. Covid is rising rapidly in California so I think the window on lower cases in the UK will inevitably close in the Autumn. So the best time to do essential things, if you are cev/cv, safely of course is now🧵

BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · 2w ago

Covid infection levels in England have again slightly increased, but the risk remains historically low. The BuDS Covid infection risk level remains Low, with 1 in every 2564 people in England now infected as of 19 July. A thread: 🧵 buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rudakubana had no control over the timing of his transfer to hospital. It's decided by a panel from both the high security hospital and prison. If anyone is retraumatising the victims of this appalling act, it is this solicitor playing to the media. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul...

Southport killer ‘trying to retraumatise families from cell’, says lawyer

Comment follows news Axel Rudakubana was transferred from prison to psychiatric hospital

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BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · 3w ago

BuDS has expressed strong concern about the Interim Report from the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) calling it ‘incomplete’, ‘less than honest’ and ‘calculatedly misleading’. A 🧵 1/5 buds.org.uk/interim-repo...

Interim Report of the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

BuDS expressed strong concern about the Interim Report, calling it ‘incomplete’, ‘less than honest’ and ‘calculatedly misleading’.

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Right To Life UK@righttolifeuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👎DISCREDITED ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL RETURNS, AMIDST PREDICTIONS OF DEFEAT Ignoring pleas from fellow MPs and warnings from Royal Colleges & disability and domestic abuse charities, Lauren Edwards has defied Andy Burnham’s concerns by reintroducing the assisted suicide Bill.🧵 1/

Barbara Rich@barbararich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Her CV shows no specialist education or experience in either the clinical or legal aspects of this proposed legislation, nor of any prior interest in or knowledge of aspects of decision-making in later life, and the limits of individual autonomy many people have at that stage in their lives

BuDS Disability Service@buds-disability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It turns out that Lauren Edwards, the MP who wants suicide to be available on the NHS for disabled people, has used unacceptable disability slurs in the past. Is this why she hasn't consulted any of the disabled-led organisations who unanimously oppose this Bill?

A news reports about Lauren Edwards using the disablist slur 'retards' on Twitter in 2009. She says she now deeply regrets it.