SeanOSullivan @SeanOSullivan@learningdisability.social
Retired headteacher of school for children with severe and profound and multiple learning needs. Soul music, art, education and a bit of politics.
Oh thank goodness! I'm not quite sure how many decades it takes for #TrickleDownEconomics to finally dampen us all a little bit, but at least some of the most needy are seeing it begin......
What an excellent overview of the interaction between education and a person's whole life, with a focus on how society should be enabled to welcome and support people with learning disabilities.
Fully applicable to everyone, irrespective of difference:
@Alex_Verbeek I’m still finding it a bit awkward to shift. The rather heavy handed ‘favourite’ seems a bit too much compared to just clicking ‘like’ - or are people just using them as the same thing?
@GeorgeJulian It’s a lovely sunny day for it but they’ll have had to troop down mostly as a long chain all on foot and in wheelchairs from the school about 3/4 mile down the road to the cinema. Lots of the snow and ice still around, especially on pavements!
It was the primary section of the school, each of the classes doing their take on a classic fairytale this time.
Frank Wise School are back at the Odeon cinema in Banbury with another blockbuster Christmas film!
They’ve rolled the red carpet out and children, families and staff will enjoy a premiere like no other.
Along with the film, they have also pulled together 3 separate live performances so that every single child in the school takes some degree of starring role to share with their friends and families.
https://twitter.com/simonknight100/status/1603320568425680896?s=46&t=Fz2RZP8M5AdfUyr-72RCwA
Staff had achieved outstanding outcomes for #autistic people by supporting medical professionals to reduce or stop a reliance on medicines and explore alternative ways to help people manage their needs.
The provider identified a previously unrecognised negative impact on a person's wellbeing due to the side effect of an anti-psychotic medicine.
As a result, people were able to be more independent in their new homes.
One staff said of three people,
"They weren't allowed in the kitchen at their previous place, and now they make pizzas.
Basically, anything they can do for themselves now they do it.
They vacuum, they clean the floors, they are just involved in everything."
[As they should be. Living a full life in their own home. More joy tomorrow] #CQCAdvent #CQCOutstanding #HumanRights #Autism #Autistic #LearningDisability
@GeorgeJulian
I saw a tip about using #debirdify which worked pretty well. You can download a csv file of following and a separate one for followers, and then import them to Mastodon. Seems to work, but I think it’s dependent on when you do the move. If people aren’t already here then I guess they just get missed off. 👍
@GeorgeJulian I can definitely read the thread, & was able to boost individual toots within it.
I don’t yet know how to best use the favourite option, or how widely a direct reply like this might be to others on Mastodon.
I do find the threads important in cataloguing such human & commercial abuse of what should be our society’s responsibility, & admit I often get only partway.
I feel that Mastodon is as valid as Twitter for talking about the failings in care for people in society.
"The inspection was prompted in part by notification of an incident following which a person using the service sustained harm.
This incident is subject to further investigation by CQC as to whether any regulatory action should be taken.
As a result, this inspection did not examine the circumstances of the incident.
However, the information shared with CQC about the incident indicated potential concerns about the management of risk of safeguarding, reporting and training"
CQC have published two reports into Achieve Together services this month, while they were picking up awards, people they are paid to support were at risk of abuse and neglect.
First up Inglewood House, inadequate since May 2022.
This was an unannounced targeted inspection because of concerns that CQC had received relating to safeguarding.
I'm still trying to adjust to Mastodon from Twitter. Am I right that there's not an option to simply like a Toot, unless you want to 'favourite' it? Seems a bit much?
And if you 'boost', is that in effect the same as retweeting a tweet with no additional comment?
🔥 PPE scandal
@mikegalsworthy
Surely a quick action the govt can take immediately is to set a rule that no govt contract can be awarded to any company which does not have clearly identifiable owners?
We still need major reform on how companies can be set up with impenetrable trails of shell companies and who owns what etc, but in the immediate storm over PPE Medpro and others, we need govt or opposition to demand that all govt contracts are transparent and honest.
I wonder if #JeremyHunt sticks by, or rejects, his views on the NHS from 2005?
#DirectDemocracy as noted in @PrivateEyeNews 1585, letter from Michael Carlson.
We've found Jeremy Hunt's book - and yes, he does want to Privatise the NHS. https://whatwouldvirchowdo.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/weve-found-jeremy-hunts-book-and-yes-he-does-want-to-privatise-the-nhs/
”We are still here, and we are not planning on going anywhere. Young people all over the world are stepping up, showing that our leaders messed with the wrong generation.” My full speech from The Climate Event at Southbank Centre this Sunday is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ropBOwPvmLM
KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!
Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?
Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.
Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).
So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!
But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!
OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!
I hope that others have found opening a Mastodon account ok.
Up and running here today, thanks to everyone who’s gone to the trouble of posting how to do it, and thanks to everyone running the servers 👏
@ciarale01
Hi Ciara, good to see you're over on here!
Hi everyone. I’m chuffed to finally be on Mastodon and getting my head round it all.
I’m a retired headteacher of a special school and hope to keep in touch with people interested in #SEND and #Education in general.
I’m also a lifelong #Soul fan and record collector, and enjoy #Art of all sorts, especially #ModernArt.
I like to dabble in what’s going on in #Politics, #Wildlife and quirky #Comedy accounts too.
Retired headteacher of school for children with severe and profound and multiple learning needs. Soul music, art, education and a bit of politics.
