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.

Countdown to Winterbourne Day Two: The 152% Surge

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...

Our joint statement with Stolen Lives (Wales) rightfullives.org.uk/campaigns/ri...

#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...

#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#ScotLDWeek #ScotLDWeek25 #IAmHereScotland

Too many words... I see you. #CarersWeek #RealCarersWeek

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...

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 🙏

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...

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...

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/...

Lucy Adams talking today.. #Disclosure #Lockedinthehospital www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#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.

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...

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...

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 🙏♥️

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...

A lot will be said about the NHS structure, functions and system processes in the coming weeks and month. As you hear and read it, keep this in mind and ask if we're making the same mistakes now? #patientsafety

Here’s the video recording of our webinar last week on autism, learning disability and the #MentalHealthBill. Thanks to all who spoke and watched! youtu.be/oM53rBKkLEM @rightfullives.bsky.social @learningdisability.bsky.social

At the SDSS National Voice yesterday, interesting workshops and more honesty about the gap between where we are and where we need to be. As always, we won't get there without a real power shift and full accountability to disabled people and their families. Loads of great projects and more to do!

At the end of last year, we shared a powerful series of artwork created by a young woman, depicting her experiences of seclusion and long-term segregation (LTS). The RRN is grateful to the artist for sharing her work. You can view her work here: restraintreductionnetwork.org/resource/artwork-lt...

Today, the BBC published a story sharing the experience of Kasibba, an autistic woman with a learning disability who was detained in hospital for 45 years, for no medical reason. Read the RRN's response here: restraintreductionnetwork.org/rrn-response-45-yea...

Yesterday, RRN’s Alexis Quinn was a guest on Woman’s Hour, speaking about this week’s BBC story sharing the experience of Kasibba, an autistic woman with a learning disability who was detained in hospital for 45 years, for no medical reason. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028kzc

Health Secretary calls for investigation into care company after ITV News investigation, writes @danielhewittitv.bsky.social www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

Disabled people are being neglected in homes run by one of the UK’s largest private care companies, with one vulnerable resident filmed eating out of a bin and another left with an untreated infection causing his foot to rot, as @danielhewittitv.bsky.social reports www.itv.com/news/2025-03...

Lifeways is the UK’s largest provider of supported living for adults with complex needs. Last year it’s revenue rose to £295 million. It’s CEO - who I interview in this film - earns £923,000. Yet we have exposed serious neglect of disabled people across multiple services.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 45 years inside for, er, being autistic. Remind me what the worst criminals get?...

Trauma in the Name of Treatment. We can vouch for that… www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/trau...

Rightful Lives is co-hosting an event on 4th March at Doughty Street Chambers. It will look at the implications of the Mental Health Bill for autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Why not come along! www.doughtystreet.co.uk/event/deep-d...

We are receiving an increase in calls from people concerned about the scale and effects of reductions in support and services. We recognise the need to balance the books, but we remain committed to supporting sustainable, effective and person centred support across Social Care.

UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has published my written evidence on the Mental Health Bill. l suggested amendments that would advance the rights of persons with learning disabilities and/or autism #MHBill https://buff.ly/4hHhfBL

#Oliverscampaign A hospital ward for people with autism & learning disabilities has been closed after a review of CCTV led to concerns about patient safety @CareQualityComm @Mersey_Care check if this hospital is doing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory training www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 'My life was turned around but I fear others will miss out on help' 🧍‍♂️ William Rae, Vice Chair of the Board at C-Change, talks about the impact the changes in Employers NI will have on people accessing support 📝 He urges the chancellor to rethink the measures #BetterIsPossible #NI

🧵1. Young adults with learning disabilities are 9 times more likely to die from treatable conditions compared to adults in the general population – stark new findings in @bmj.com Dr Ewelina Rydzewska-Fazekas, @debcairns.bsky.social et al @ScotLDO @UofGSHW @uofglasgow.bsky.social bit.ly/4aXvNut

🚨 EXC: The CQC has written to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social urging him to scrap its 3-year time limit on prosecuting hospitals & care homes to deliver "natural justice" for victims of care failures. First interview with the watchdogs new boss in The Sunday Times: www.thetimes.com/article/7fc8...