Rightful Lives
@rightfullives.bsky.social
A UK based creative campaign and community focussed on the Human Rights of Autistic people and people with Learning Disabilities. www.rightfullives.org.uk
“He said that he wanted all seclusion rooms turned into broom cupboards.” Read what happened when Jack Cavanagh met the Welsh Government. 👇 rightfullives.org.uk/blog/jack-cavanagh-meets-the-welsh-government/
Jack Cavanagh meets the Welsh Government – Rightful Lives
When the Welsh Government (WG) said they wanted to visit Jack and where he was living, everyone wondered how best to play it.
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Statement on the recent Supreme Court DoLS judgement. We are concerned at how this sits against the background of everything else that is currently eroding the rights of autistic people and people with learning disabilities. rightfullives.org.uk/blog/statement-on-the-supreme-court-dols-judgement/
Statement on the Supreme Court DoLS Judgement – Rightful Lives
The recent weakening of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) protections is not an isolated development. It forms part of a wider and deeply concerning pattern in which the rights of autistic people and people with learning disabilities are being steadily eroded across health, social care and education.
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This is our vigil from five years ago. Watch it and listen to the words of two autistic people locked away. Then share it because five years later #NothingHasChanged. #Winterbourne15 #Winterbourne10 youtu.be/ftIwWjG7rGw?...
Winterbourne 10 year Vigil
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TODAY IT IS 15 YEARS SINCE WINTERBOURNE VIEW: WHY ARE THE NUMBERS STILL RISING? Today, May 31st, we mark the 15th anniversary of the Winterbourne View scandal. At the time, the world promised "never again”. Watch our video to see why this was a lie.
COUNTDOWN TO WINTERBOURNE DAY 6 🎙️NOTHING HAS CHANGED 🕯️ Alexis Quinn’s work on thePatient 11 podcast exposed the fact that sexual abuse and violence are still rife in these wards. It is a culture, not a coincidence.
COUNTDOWN TO WINTERBOURNE DAY 5 🏘️ FROM WARDS TO THE STREETS What happens when you close a hospital without a community roadmap? You create a pipeline to prison or the streets. 🏚️🚓 #ForensicPathways #Homelessness #Winterbourne15 #HomesNotHospitals #NothingHasChanged
COUNTDOWN TO WINTERBOURNE DAY 4: ⏳THE LEGISLATIVE HOSTAGE
COUNTDOWN TO WINTERBOURNE DAY 3: ⛓️THE "STUCK" POPULATION If you have a learning disability in the UK today, you are statistically more likely to be part of the "stuck" population—detained for 10, 15, or even 20 years. ⏳ 15 years after Winterbourne.
The Never Again Myth of Winterbourne View #NothingHasChanged
An important new public policy report from Autism Alliance www.autism-alliance.org.uk/a-new-path-a...
A New Path Ahead — Autism Alliance UK
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The recent rhetoric from the powers that be about Autistic people has been deeply disturbing. From education to benefits to diagnosis and support, the messaging has been negative and harmful. Yet in real life, Autistic people are being failed again and again. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/429...
We are failing the very people we should be supporting the most
Sam’s story shows us the reality of living with autism
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If there was one thing to deal with. It is this. Locked up still going on @rightfullives.bsky.social ⬇️ How many ?
Daniel Hewitt@danielhewittitv.bsky.social · 6mo ago🔺Investigation: Families of severely learning disabled people in care have told us they’re being restricted or banned from visiting them after complaining about negligent care. We spoke to 50 families about the increasing use of contact restrictions. A worrying trend. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
Please read this blog by Clare Lucignoli. In it she discusses her research on the experiences of parent carers of disabled children and adults in Wales. Clare also brings in Rekha Neilson’s report about the similar experiences of families in Cambridgeshire. rightfullives.org.uk/blog/report-...
Report of Experiences of Parent Carers of Disabled Children and Adults Across Wales – Rightful Lives
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For #HumanRightsDay, our admin, Dr Dawn Cavanagh, talks about her recent research into human rights in secure hospitals. Are there any? Listen here 👇 youtu.be/o8G4DGV6q54
Human Rights in Secure Hospitals
YouTube video by Rightful Lives
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“This is how every single person like me suffered at those institutions.” An Autistic Artist
In our latest blog, Alexis Quinn discusses her five top PBS bugbears, their impact on people and practical solutions for staff 👇 rightfullives.org.uk/blog/top-fiv...
“One family member told us that they didn’t always feel their relative was safe and staying on the Mitford Unit actually made them feel worse.” Even the so-called specialist units can’t get it right it seems. www.cqc.org.uk/press-releas...
CQC publishes report on service run by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust - Care Quality CommissionFacebookTwitterYouTube
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report on wards for people with a learning disability or autistic people, run by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, followin...
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Subscribe to #AnnaFreud newsletter to be the first to see new animation with @aquinnunbroken.bsky.social We are passionate about neuro-diversity informed practice and we are asking professionals to un-think and re-think about seclusion and long term segregation www.annafreud.org/training/hea...
Really pleased to have collaborated with such brilliant thought leaders to critique the idea that enforced isolation (LTS) can be therapeutic. Our new paper suggest solitary confinement has no place in modern health care. 1/4 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Quinn et al | The British Journal of Ps...
Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Quinn et al
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With ministers ‘on resignation watch’, welfare cuts could be make or break for Keir Starmer www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-e...
With ministers on resignation watch, welfare cuts could be make or break for Starmer
Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, is next week expected to announce savings of £5bn a year. Sound the alarms, writes John Rentoul
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My daughter created this image to depict how she felt going to school as a dual heritage autistic person... and why, in the end, she refused to attend. Heartbreaking. #EBSA
In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the video of the webinar about the Mental Health Bill that we co-hosted with Oliver Lewis at Doughty Street Chambers last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM53...
A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024 - Autism and learning disability
YouTube video by Doughty Street Chambers
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A wonderful evening hosted by @doughtystreet.bsky.social on the impact of the forthcoming Mental Health Bill. What happens with the removal of learning disability & autism when there’s no community provision?
