dr courtney buckler
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she/they 🏳️⚧️ ☸️ Head of Policy & Campaigns: @nsunnews.bsky.social Exec Director: @makespaceco.bsky.social formerly/unfortunately on the other place as @cbuckler_
New EHRC guidance is due today. Remember: ➡️ Early reports based on unattributed briefings are spin, not facts. ➡️ This is civil law around who can and cannot bring discrimination claims - not criminal law. ➡️ Whatever it says, it is a choice by this government. They can fix it. ➡️ We will keep going.
After new information through FOI that yet another Trust has stopped using Oxevision, we can now reveal that just 19 out of the 50 mental health Trusts are still using the system - well below the 50% that Oxehealth (now LIO) once boasted!
My favourite thing about this post is a for-profit company likening their surveillance tech to the invention of stethoscopes or safety equipment in Formula 1 cars. "Over time, the radical becomes reasonable", they say. 1/2
Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 9mo agoAs of writing this egregious post referencing the Lampard Inquiry is still up www.linkedin.com/pulse/signal...
Legal representatives for @stopoxevision.bsky.social, bereaved families, patients and @inquest-org.bsky.social have supported calls for the Lampard Inquiry to issue interim recommendations requiring EPUT to stop their use of Oxevision. You've heard the evidence, now action is needed
Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe have updated our website to include information on the December hearings of the Lampard Inquiry, in which legal representatives of Core Participants were given the opportunity to address the Chair on any procedural issues Short thread stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/l...
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget. Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts. Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
NSUN Responds to the Autumn Budget
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget, a yearly statement outlining plans for spending and taxes in the year ahead.
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BREAKING: An NHS Trust has been forced to admit the potential misuse of surveillance technology Oxevision (now “LIO”) in psychiatric inpatient bedrooms at the Lampard Inquiry this week. NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.
Our Highest Honour: Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx ##RITBhonours
Over the past weeks we have witnessed the Government's increased anti-migration rhetoric and failure to denounce far-right violence. Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue. www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...
Migration and mental health: why we won’t stop talking about it
We have an inadequate welfare system, overwhelmed mental health services and a broken asylum system for the same reason: political choice.
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DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP disability advisory panel? Something's up...
thecanary.co
Yesterday, the Government rushed through the newly titled Universal Credit Bill – enacting their planned cuts to Universal Credit for new claimants from 2026/7. The Bill will now progress to the House of Lords, where it will face reduced scrutiny. We are devastated 🧵(1/4).
Yesterday NSUN published an email template for lobbying your MP around welfare cuts. Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today. www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...
Lobby your MP about the welfare cuts: Template email
Access a template to email your MP about the impact of welfare cuts for Disabled people.
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Got something to say about the Government's proposals to slash welfare support for Disabled people? Me too! Contribute to @nsunnews.bsky.social's consultation response here: forms.gle/wYMtnpWtrhbZ...
NSUN's Pathways to Work Green Paper consultation response
The purpose of this form is to gather views from those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma on recently announced changes Disability benefits. Responses to these questions ...
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So pleased to see this piece out in the world and am touched to have been interviewed as part of it. It tenderly outlines the entanglements of police and policing in mental health services. Written by @rebeccamarie.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
"They’re just waiting for her to die": How austerity turns mental health patients into prisoners
As mental health crises spiral, many like Lucy find themselves caught in a broken system where prison is seen as the only place of safety
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Join us and award-winning disabled journalist, activist and author Rachel Charlton-Dailey on 22 May to discuss the Government’s plans to reshape the welfare system, and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...
Social security & Mental Health (Network Meeting May 2025)
We’ll be discussing social security and mental health, including the government’s plans to reshape the welfare system and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distr...
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My reflections on the joy and disappointment of giving "evidence" in parliament, what it means to have become an "expert", and how this big day out confirmed everything I already knew about knowledge, power, & co-production 👇
National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · last yr."I was fuelled by the responsibility I feel to the many, many hundreds of Mad and Disabled people I have the honour to work and organise alongside." @courtneybuckler.bsky.social on giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry. www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...
Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people. Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).
New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · last yr.Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people. NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
"We as the mental health sector have a responsibility to call out this logic, rejecting the ways transness is constructed as a mental health problem and resisting psychological therapies being used as a new form of conversion therapy."
National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · last yr.Read our call to action, signed by @mindcharity.bsky.social @rethinkcharity.bsky.social @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social @mhfaengland.bsky.social @studentmindsorg.bsky.social @centreformh.bsky.social & @mhealthuk.bsky.social. www.nsun.org.uk/news/why-the... (2/2)
Trans rights are being attacked in the name of mental healthcare. On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).
🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts. We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system. #StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by the DWP’s proposals on welfare reform. These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)
‼️ Just want to clarify that the mask requirement of course does not include those who are exempt❤️
Crips Against Cuts♿️🌻@crips-against-cuts.bsky.social · last yr.Hey folks! We initially started Crips Against Cuts over on Instagram but have been restricted. We are a Crip-led grassroots group organising a day of action on March 22nd to fight against proposed welfare cuts! Several demos are happening and here is the info for our Bristol one! Solidarity always💗
Welfare reform proposals today have come with a new consultation, open until 30th June. However, accessible versions of documents are missing. 1/5
Solidarity, love, and care to all who are (also) troubled by today's announcements re: changes to welfare for Disabled people. A reminder that nothing is in effect, and will likely not be for some time.
📢 We’ve united with Scope against cuts to disability benefits. Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them. Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️ www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
The cost of cuts to disability benefits: Our open letter to the Chancellor | Disability charity Scope UK
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed ...
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NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by recent news regarding reforms to the welfare system. We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).
Looking forward to this one in particular. Horrified by surveillance: touched by the power, ingenuity, and perseverance of Mad folk. 💞
Hel Spandler@hspandler.bsky.social · 2y agoOnline launch of Spring issue of Asylum mag. It's gonna be another cracker..👍🏼🧨🎆 Hear from guest editors & contributors @stopoxevision.bsky.social Supported by @nsunnews.bsky.social @asylummagazine.bsky.social Register here for joining link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Excited to be setting up Mad Campaigns Lab! 💫 A drop in space for Mad and Disability justice campaigners, through @nsunnews.bsky.social. Focus will be on skillsharing, solidarity, and strategy. Register interest & input below 👇
National Survivor User Network@nsunnews.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are soon to launch Mad Campaigns Lab: a new drop-in networking space for members interested in/working around campaigning on issues relating to Mad and Disability justice. Register your interest and input your thoughts by clicking below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
