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📢Announcing our NEW video series: Movement without Barriers
Co-produced conversations from Disabled people, on their experience finding ways to enjoy physical activity and feeling more confident.
💕Lived experience
📝Practical advice
📺Real stories
Coming in September! 📅
ALT Movement without barriers Video series A new series exploring Disabled people’s stories around physical activity, the barriers we face and top tips for getting started. It will be a safe space for Disabled people to speak about movement and what it means to us. Tune in! Website icon: Getyourselfactive.org YouTube Icon: Disability Rights UK Background is green, with three images of a microphone, headphones and a stage mic, with a Get Yourself Active logo
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Today I opened a hospital letter next to the bins because I couldn’t bring myself to carry it inside.
I got home today after cycling back from Bessacarr: sun on my arms, wind in my face, endorphins buzzing like I’d outrun something.
Then I saw the envelope in the postbox. It was much heavier than normal. The kind of weight that makes your stomach turn before you even open it.
I opened it by the wheelie bins. Couldn’t quite bring myself to carry it through the door.
The report was 5 pages long, that’s how many tests I have & do regularly (amazing NHS), it was filled with the language I’ve come to know too well.
Malignancy. Lesion. Further investigation. Again and again, like it was trying to pin something down that can’t be pinned. Seeing those words written down on official letterheaded paper always takes my breath away.
Another separate stack of paper requesting blood tests, more scans. More waiting. Another reminder that even when I’m living my life, I’m still being hunted from the inside.
This is the part I don’t always say out loud: It does make me… anxious. Not all the time. But enough.
I live with this constant hum of uncertainty that eggs on urgency, like something is ticking just beneath the surface.
I never really feel “well” & and I never feel like I have enough time.
Not for rest. Not for joy. Not for the kind of life I imagined I’d grow into.
And some days, that pressure builds. It has been recently as I feel a bit lost. Generally. Rerouting a life that constantly has no stability in it.
Then I get my medical updates that can knock the breath out of me.
I try to stay present. I try to believe that medical science will stay one step ahead of whatever is happening inside my body. But sometimes, it’s hard to hold all that.
And yet. Today I rode home in the sun. Today I felt strong. Today I opened the letter. And today, even with fear at my heels - I’m still here. Still trying. Still hoping. Still burning through whatever time I’ve got like it matters. Because it does.
I have some time, and we will make all of it count.
We're headin to Milan and Como early august, who knew!
Lookin forward to when you're back and your next steps forward, wpnderin what they'll be
I made this video for this song as a celebration of survival - a joyful reconnection with with self, with going back home, & with the world after illness & going through some bad shizzle over the election campaign.
It’s about healing.
About stepping into the light after walking through deep vulnerability.
Speaking of vulnerability, I tried to just talk this but it demands to be sung - but not a “singer” & I had to sing it quietly, because the walls are paper thin here & everyone went to bed early. but it needed to be let it out anyway.
This is for anyone who’s ever had to begin again.
This is what it sounds like to live. To see the beauty in the world with the dark & light.
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Still time to book on our Privacy @skillsforcare workshop. Offering Direct Payment employers a safe place to hear from others, know that they are not on their own, look in depth at issues that aren't usually spoken about and to try and find strategies and solutions.
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Today is the last day for registering for tomorrow’s main event…
Employment Rights for PA Employers
Hope to see you there!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/ilg-commu…
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Following a great webinar last week, our first ILG Community event of the year is less than a week away. There are still places left!
Wednesday 26th February @ 1.30pm
Employment Rights for PA Employers
eventbrite.co.uk/e/114319543…
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2 weeks tomorrow… register for your place here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gap-b…
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Care and support can be creative too! The Dende Collective offers a range of arts that older adults can get involved in. Find more like this on the Small Good Stuff directory.
Welcome to new @smallgoodstuff member ‘Dende Collective'. They offer engaging drama, film, and visual artists’ activities and projects for older adults aged 60 and above in #Westminster. Find out more at communitycatalysts.co.uk/sma…
ALT Images of woman in silver coat and masks, with text reading 'welcome to another new micro-enterprise on Small Good Stuff'
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It’s been great working with @SimonStockton3 & Ali Smith on the local element of our Plumbing & Wiring initiative. Seven councils & local citizens coproducing plans on important local issues using the Working Together for Change approach.
ALT A slides with the headline The Working Together for Change process. Three speech bubbles 1. “It felt like a special place where something magical happened” 2. “We went from apathy to appetite” 3. “We started with a cauldron of dissent and out of the mix came something magical”
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@Giselle_ASCWs @CareConcernSol @CentreForCare @DvcDudley @EndSCDisgrace @dogmuns @EllenClifford1 @flickhwilliams @NationalDPforum @NCFCareForum @GMCDP @GoodLawProject @hoe_karen @JonGlue @Longhouseman @LearningDisEng @martindavidwal2 @mroutled @neilmcrowther @TLAP1 @ZebraOrphans
Have you signed up to course understanding the law for Care Act. Explaining how the whole process fits together. Enabling you to better argue your case.
ALT Being the boss course understanding how the law works, picture of various aspects of the law - list covering care act, common, civil,adminstrative laws. How laws are put together, decided in courts, judges rules, case law, precedent. Also covering aspects of Equality Act, Human Rights and U N conventions. Thursday 26th September 1pm - 3pm Contact - [email protected]
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📢Data return alert for councils📢
@skillsforcare is commissioned by DHSC to collect adult social care workforce data as part of the mandatory single data list for local government.
Please remember to complete yours.
All local authorities must complete their annual Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set return between 9 September – 11 October. We have published guidance to help you complete your return & the ASC-WDS Support Team are on hand to answer any questions.
bit.ly/LAwindow
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"The beauty of the micro-provider model lies in its triple impact: it supports those in need of care, provides economic opportunities, and fosters community engagement".
Fantastic to see the impact of the community micro-enterprise project in Denbighshire loom.ly/Xrj-1fc
Really interesting report and recommendations about PA Wellbeing in Scotland, timely here in England as work progresses on a PA role in the Care Workforce Pathway @DHSCgovuk
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Practical support in place in some places in England
impact.bham.ac.uk/our-projec…
Doncaster commissions an interesting and successful PA peer support service provided by DPO @active_ind
Medway have a broad set of measures in place designed to enhance PA wellbeing
@ILG_Community offer individual employer members a range of wellbeing benefits through ILGPA
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We believe that policies should reflect the voices of the people they affect. That's why we're proud to have co-produced a set of values for the social care workforce which were included in the @DHSCgovuk Care Workforce Pathway bit.ly/4djHPit
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We asked people who draw on care and support which values they expect to see in the people who support them. This is what they told us.
See all 7 value statements, which serve as guiding principles for person-centred care
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bit.ly/4djHPit
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📣Out now “Values & the workforce: The expectations of people with lived experience” providing more insights from our coproduction of values statements for @DHSCgovuk Care Workforce Pathway.
@SKinnock @oonaghsmyth @clentonF @MelanieNottsDA @CareEngland @vicrayner @CPA_SocialCare
Our new report is now live! 'Values and the workforce: the expectations of people with lived experience' shares insights from people who draw on care and support about the values they believe the #SocialCare workforce should hold. Discover our findings bit.ly/4djHPit
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Coming soon! Our new report 'Values and the workforce: the expectations of people with lived experience' will be available from Thursday 1 August. Sign up to our mailing list and we'll send it to you as soon as it's available bit.ly/TLAPmail
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Despite existing barriers, we must enhance direct payments and self-directed support for autonomy and dignity. Join us in transforming care and support for all. thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk…