Dr Mike Brady (PhD) Consultant Paramedic / Academic

@drmikebradyphd.bsky.social

Assistant Clinical Director, Associate Professor, Consultant Paramedic (PhD). Academic. 999, 111, IUC. Views are my own. Shares are not endorsements.

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members". The rhetoric about SEND pupils having their support plans "Reviewed" is a shady veil of lies for providing more and more opportunities for REMOVAL not review. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pupils' SEND support to be reviewed after primary, leaked plans suggest

Leaks suggest plans for a complete redesign of special educational needs and disabilities support in schools.

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Dr Mike Brady from Welsh Ambulance Service & part of the research team said: “These insights are highly relevant today, as UK health services undergo large-scale clinical model transformations, winter preparation responses, & future pandemic preparedness exercises". shorturl.at/whnIF

Resilience under pressure: Study reveals ambulance staff’s adaptive response to Covid-19

A Swansea University study has uncovered the intense emotional and operational strain experienced by emergency ambulance staff across the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The special educational needs system is widely considered to be broken. Put simply, demand is outstripping supply, and too many children are being left without the support they need or having to go to school far away from home. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

SEND in the Spotlight - Introducing... Send in the Spotlight - BBC Sounds

Real stories, bold ideas: Reimagining support for special educational needs

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Companies have decided to pay people less who work remotely, even if they have more expertise and/or provide more value to a company than certain people who go into the office. Guess who needs remote jobs more? Marginalized groups! especially disabled people! What a coincidence! 🫠

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 10mo ago

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...