Time to Talk day (Thursday 7th February) falls within ‘Childrens Mental Health Awareness Week’, making it the perfect time to get your school opening up to mental health. This year Time to Talk Day is …
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CARE NOT CUSTODY – MENTAL HEALTH & PRISON
Our thanks to the Prison Reform Trust who we recently visited and who have provided most of the information in this article. And our special thanks to the charity’s Jenny Talbot who spent so much of her time …
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The Upside is a film (inspired by a true story) about a disabled person being cared for by an ex-convict. Philip (Bryan Cranston) is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his …
Continue readingMoD TO TRACK VETERAN SUICIDES
The Ministry of Defence is to start recording the number of suicides among military veterans. Tobias Ellwood – The Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood said the move was crucial for the government to ‘better’ understand’ the …
Continue readingENJOY FOOD – MANAGING YOUR DIABETES
Our acknowledgements to Diabetes UK An important part of managing your diabetes is to eat a healthy balanced diet – there’s no such thing as a diabetic diet or diabetic recipes. Cooking from scratch gives you control …
Continue readingARE YOU DISABLED AND GETTING THE RIGHT HELP AT YOUR JOB CENTRE?
If you are disabled and want to work are you getting the right amount of information and advice at your local Job Centre? Obviously, we hope the answer to this is ‘you are’ – but …
Continue readingSUPPORT OUR ‘STEP FREE RAIL’ CAMPAIGN
We acknowledge that most of our rail network (Overground and Underground) was built at a time wen the needs of disabled people were simply not considered. But when you read of the relatively small amounts …
Continue readingPERFECTION IS STAGNATION!
By guest contributor Martyn Sibley “Happy New Year to you all! I hope the festive break was relaxing, fun and rejuvenating”. “I had a huge realisation over the festive period that I want to share. …
Continue readingOUR #ALLin MOVEMENT: NOW TRULY INTERNATIONAL!
Our thanks to Hollywood Actress Eileen Grubba together with Hollywood Actor Paul Ford who have been tireless in their efforts in promoting the #ALLin Movement in the United States. The movement has now featured in a major US National Magazine …
Continue readingTHE INCREDIBLE YEAR IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DIABETES
Diabetes is rarely out of the news as lifestyles come under increasing investigation. So let us look at a leading UK Diabetes charity to see what successes they achieved in 2018. For more information about Disablity …
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