Live more: how Greater Manchester is leading the way in offering early, preventive support to people living with dementia and their families, in partnership with @sharedlivesplus.bsky.social & @adass.bsky.social GM www.adass.org.uk/live-more-sh...

You should read this (and not only cos I co-wrote it 🙃).

"There is no recession of the imagination": finding point 7 of the Arts Emergency Manifesto particularly inspiring today. Also point 11: "Optimism is a weapon and if all else fails be silly".

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Today, the Guardian’s Seascape launches a year long series on young people in England’s coastal towns. What is it about living by the sea that results in poorer outcomes for many? Our news story to launch it. More in an hour… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Missed our #10YearHealthPlan webinar earlier? Don't worry, here's some of the key takeaway from our panel and speakers on what they think the 10 Year Health plan will mean for the future of the NHS. Watch the event back here: youtu.be/nhRtMPOzbjs

Moments like these, I always come back to: "Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die." ❤️‍🩹

Today, we have set out our plan to kickstart a decade of social and affordable housing renewal. Here’s how we’ll do it 🧵

83 #DoTheRightThing #PIP news.sky.com/story/politi...

Not enough room to show the working out but the answer according to chat GPT is ….try it. Need someone clever to tell you if it’s right. Govt needs more emotional collaborative and social intelligence.

The maths problem you have to solve to become one of the Government's new disruptors. Which shows the same diagnostic error as Cummings: state reform as a complicated rather than complex challenge. It will attract some good people so no harm. But won't confront fundamental institutional challenges.

If enacted this will see the State finding new £ & staff to help people kill themselves whilst hospice care in many places is being reduced. Is that the outcome legislators intend? If not what are they going to do about the latter?

“Crucially, the government has decided that taking £200 a year in Winter Fuel Allowance from people on £30,000 is too politically painful. How can it defend to its own MPs taking £10,000 a year from families in much more difficult circumstances than that?” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk www.bbc.com/news/article... A story about how *every* future born citizen will have their DNA recorded & screened with AI, without one paragraph about data security or scrutiny of promised benefit? Anyone got a link to a better article?

This being the context for the Assisted Dying Bill 👇

They. Are. Sanctuaries.

170 unhappy Labour MPs. Labour loses far more support from its own base than any it might gain from those who think benefit recipients are scroungers - they'll just bank the win and then find another excuse to hate Labour. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Personal independence payment helps people to go to work makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/p...

Why are Tories suddenly using the term "white british" in debates on immgration and citizenship? www.ft.com/content/aceb...

#DoTheRightThing Government whip quits over disability benefit cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sharing this on the eve of tomorrow's vote. I am a palliative care doctor who is not opposed to AD. But enshrining in law a state-funded right to die, while not enshrine a similar right to the palliative care that might make life worth living, is so very wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Land of the free.

At #NHSConfedExpo today, Victor Adebowale explored the complex relationship between the NHS and adult social care, highlighting the urgent need for collaboration to enhance care delivery.

If you want to know how today's spending review affects #socialcare, you are going to have to wait. There is no clear sum to fund a fair pay agreement and promises of 'over £4bn' for social care in 2028/29 are unclear. Puzzled, frustrated thread > news.sky.com/story/spendi...

Good to see this by @local.gov.uk - the impact of OTs on people’s lives and outcomes far exceeds their relatively small numbers

Who controls the past now Controls the future. Who controls the present now, controls the past. Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now? Now testify. (It’s right outside your door). youtu.be/j_zyb-XXWz0?... #LosAngeles 🇺🇸

How about securing trust in the quality of your journalism, commitment to verified facts and the richness of your quality broadcasting output instead? #BBC

'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

go.bsky.app/jPc1mH Innovation, creativity and joy. Let’s not settle for making the most of what we’ve got, when what could be, is beautiful and bold. #MakingItReal needs people who believe in #MakingItHappen. @tlap.bsky.social #Casey #CareCantWait It’s #TimeToAct Join in.

Beautiful!

Jude McCreath live @ the wonderful George Tavern London this week The poster drawing and design his too

Prevention works.

New from CQC www.cqc.org.uk/publications... Dementia -or how care& support is experienced- sits at the intersection of just about every policy & practice challenge & opportunity faced in social care & health. Significant contribution here from CQC, @tlap.bsky.social will have its own in the Autumn

Bruce Springstein won’t be intimidated by Krasnov’s threats. In fact, last night in Manchester, he doubled down. He is using his platform to educate the world where MSM refuses to do so. He has hope. So do I. This is 100% worth the brilliant listen. My love for him is so great.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."

Asked 2 straight questions on impact of PIP changes, avoids any mention of disabled people in reply. Correct people do “want opportunity” to flourish. Deeper poverty? Not so much @channel4news.bsky.social We need more disabled people on the news speaking truths, sharing solutions Rethink. #Change

Asked this weekend, 66% of Britons said they supported a closer relationship with the EU, and 53% said they supported rejoining the EU yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

www.gov.uk/government/n... “For occupations below (graduate) level, access… will be strictly time-limited, granted only on the basis of strong evidence of shortages ..critical to the industrial strategy & where workforce strategies are drawn up so employers also commit to ⬆️ domestic recruitment.”

Just had one of these golden beauties in our Hertfordshire garden. Anyone know what Beetle it is? Bright gold when flying round. @hertswildlifetrust.bsky.social

⭐ Our Understanding Direct Payments learning series is out now – and you can explore the resource at buff.ly/Zuuii6p. 🚀 We launched with a webinar that talks about how and why we've created them – but if you missed it, don't worry! The recording is online now – click the link below!

At the @adass.bsky.social #SpringSeminar25 proudly launching a ‘Vision for Co-production’, which we co-produced together. Great talking to people about what would support co-production, the ingredients for doing it well, and how to shift from consultation to meaningful co-production across ADASS.

EXC - 42 MPs have signed a letter to Keir Starmer saying the disability cuts are “impossible to support” PM is facing biggest rebellion of the parliament over welfare vote MPs call for pause and rethink until fuller impact assessments can be done in autumn and warn disabled people are frightened

Though vital for connection, community spaces in England have been declining over the years. We welcome the launch of @wearenewlocal.bsky.social’s report which highlights how community centres are vital infrastructure for communities & why they should receive long-term funding: buff.ly/OFY7FBE [1/3]

Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

The new @CommonsHealth report is a robust critique of the ‘do nothing/delay’ approach to #socialcare reform. It finds too little data to answer its own exam question - what is the cost of doing nothing - but points to some ways forward. V short thread 🔽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...