COUNTDOWN TO WINTERBOURNE DAY 4: ⏳THE LEGISLATIVE HOSTAGE
Ruth Hughes
@ruth2729.bsky.social
Mother of a wonderful boy who is autistic and has learning disabilities - badly failed by a broken system and is now trapped in The State Hospital Carstairs. A journey since 2017 that has taken us to hell and back. Won't stop fighting until I get him home.
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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#Oliverscampaign This story should make all of us angry. Thank you to @DanielHewitt for continuing to expose what too many try to hide, the abuse neglect & systemic failures faced by disabled people & their families It’s happening in services we fund Think about that www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
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#OliversCampaign Over 2,000 autistic people & people with a learning disability are still INAPPROPRIATELY detained in mental health hospitals many for nearly 5 years £534m a year is wasted on institutions instead of community care Care at need, NOT crisis saves lives @NHSE_WTE
This #ScotLDWeek, People First Scotland shines a light on those detained in hospitals - sometimes for decades simply because the right support and community housing doesn’t exist. Read the full blog here: zurl.co/vSw9R #ScotLDWeek25 #IAmHereScotland
Moving tribute to a son who died while taking ‘antipsychotic’ drugs. By MITUK admin madintheuk.com/2025/06/movi... #PsychiatricDrugs #SideEffectsMatter #InformedConsent #MentalHealthAdvocacy #TardiveDyskinesia #MedicationAwareness
#Oliverscampaign Oliver should be sleeping safely in his own bed, instead he lays in a grave This #learningdisability2025 let's stop these horrendously preventable deaths due to inequality of health care, ignorance, diagnostic overshadowing, bias & prejudice
Reminder of our report: Hospital is not home. We considered the circumstances of 55 people who were in a learning disability or mental health hospital for over 10 years. We found that people are staying in hospital for too long; on average 18 years and 2 months. More here: bit.ly/4axFGiv
May 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! madintheuk.com #MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor #MadInTheUK #EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice
The incredible ‘Beautiful Lives - how we got learning disabilities so wrong’ is published today. The author, @stephenunwin.bsky.social has written about what this day means to him. Do please read. #LearningDisabilities www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...
Publication Day — Stephen Unwin
The day that a book goes out into the world is a strange one. In many ways, nothing happens: the book has been printed, advance copies have been circulated, and the only thing that changes is that it ...
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youtube.com/watch?v=n3hq... 9 years have passed and still many are stuck..we need action not meaningless empty promises. Nothing is too complex or difficult to happen if the work, action and effort is put in. Home, love, family and a good life. A basic human right for everyone 🙏
STUCK IN THE SYSTEM: Care in Crisis
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Protest brings anger at failure to act on ‘homes not hospitals’ plea to government’s front door
The Labour government has “betrayed” autistic people and people with learning difficulties who have been abused and abandoned in mental health institutions, activists told a protest in front of the…
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Records were "routinely incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistently completed or, in some cases falsified - in ward after ward, hospital after hospital, year after year" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Essex mental health patient records covered up, say families - BBC News
The Lampard Inquiry is looking into more than 2,000 mental health-related deaths.
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The SHRC appeared before the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee to discuss their report. The detention of people with LD and autism is a human rights issue. Their work here regarding the CRPD and HR Act is so important. www.scottishhumanrights.com/blog/tick-to...
“Tick Tock” While we talk, people are waiting
“Tick Tock” – While we talk, people are waiting
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People are speaking out in support of #BringPeopleHomeFromHospital! View our public online gallery, click 'Speaking Up and Signing': buff.ly/RPVZ3bd There's still time to design artwork, make a banner, write a song! We'll share the gallery at the rally, and make videos of the rally to share after
Leanne is just one of many parents in Birmingham who are struggling to get any kind of social care/health support for their child. It’s a disgrace that families are made to suffer like this. inews.co.uk/news/health/...
'I have no support to care for my disabled son - the SEND system is broken'
Leanne Gregory has been unable to return to her community worker job because she has to take care of her five-year-old son, Jude
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Lucy Adams talking today.. #Disclosure #Lockedinthehospital www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Dr Xand's Con or Cure - Series 3: Episode 11
Delayed discharges keeping hundreds of young people locked in hospitals, the effectiveness of gut health drinks exposed, and the importance of cervical screening.
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#Oliverscampaign Has anything changed at all? "When you question the system, the system protects itself." The parents of a teenager with autism who died in a Bristol hospital have hit out saying doctors administered a drug they knew the 18-year-old was allergic to
1. It has been one year since Stolen Lives protested outside the Senedd. Detention of people with learning disabilities and autistic people is a human rights issue. It results in harm, abuse and long-term trauma.
2. We need less hospitals in Wales and more, better quality community-based care. Stolen Lives will continue to fight on this issue and will always remain true to its values: 'Homes not Hospitals.'
Sarah has spent the entirety of her adult life in and out of hospitals that are ill-equipped to meet her needs, because of one reason – she cannot receive the support for her autism and learning disability in the community.
‘Every day she begs for help’: Father fights for daughter to be freed from hospital
Exclusive: Government will miss target to get people with learning disabilities out of hospital by more than 8 years
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Ministers refused to meet with us about the #MentalHealthBill, so we are going to them. 📢 On 29th April we will deliver a letter to @skinnock.bsky.social and Baroness Merron demanding a meaningful say on how to keep us out of psychiatric hospitals. Find out more: buff.ly/eifOvod
The Scottish Human Rights Commission has published their new theory of change framework which sets out how they plan, monitor & measure the impact of their work. ➡️ ow.ly/4FvL50VrwN9 Join us on 13 May to learn more about our work together to develop this. ℹ️ www.matter-of-focus.com/from-strateg...
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Every day is so hard when separated from loved ones.. Thinking of everyone missing their children especially on Mother's Day. Love and miss you so much son 🙏♥️