1. d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk & k.runswick-cole@mmu.ac.uk
Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities and Civil Society
This research project is a collaboration between Manchester Metropolitan University; The University of Sheffield; The University of Bristol and Northumbria University as well as SpeakUp; Mencap; Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities; Pathways Associates; Manchester Learning Disability Partnership and Independent Living Advisors Pete Crane, Wendy Crane, Max Neill & Helen Smith
We ask: how are people with learning disabilities faring in a time of Big Society?
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Briefing Card 12:
Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days
Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities & Civil Society
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2. Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days
What is #107days:
Connor Sparrowhawk (known as LB on-line) was a young man who drowned alone in a bath in an NHS setting – his death was found to be ‘preventable’;
#107days is a campaign to get #justiceforLB and to improve the life chances of disabled people with learning disabilities;
As part of that campaign, we wrote a blog about violence in the lives of people with learning disabilities.
We said that:
It is right to hold the individuals responsible for LB’s preventable death to account but it is not enough to blame a few individuals;
It we want #justiceforLB and all disabled people, we also need to tackle the attitudes and systems that allow violence against people with learning disabilities to take place;
We need to look close to home, including families and schools, as well as at care settings and hospitals, to understand how this happens;
We need to act now to expose and challenge widespread disabling attitudes and practices in the lives of disabled people with learning disabilities.
Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days