QAC shoot for the stars with new Wheelchair Basketball programme
QAC are Working in collaboration with University of Worcester and The Albion Foundation, to deliver a unique, ground breaking elite Wheelchair Basketball sport performance programme. The programme is for ambitious
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Adapting routines and avoiding comparison
3rd September 2020Happy September all! I can’t quite get my head around the fact we are this far through the year? I don’t know about you, but to me it still feels
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An interview with… Mrs H
2nd September 2020A finalist in the Truth About SEND category of the BAPS Awards, here Mrs H tells us a bit more about herself and her blog H2Au: the stuff of our life.
An interview with… Chris Bonello
2nd September 2020A finalist in the Blog Post with Biggest Impact category of the BAPS Awards, Chris’s post ‘50 pieces of advice from an autistic adult, written for autistic children’ resonated with so many readers. Here, he talks about what drives him to write and dazzles us with his Rubik’s cube skills!
Made Possible; an interview with the editor
25th August 2020The release of a new book Made Possible has the potential to help create change by challenging narratives and shattering lazy stereotypes surrounding people with a learning disability.
CCG proposes plan to tackle health inequalities
24th August 2020Long standing health inequalities have undoubtedly worsened during the Coronavirus pandemic and one local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has proposed a potentially transformative plan to tackle the problem and save
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Access to Work support for disabled people
20th August 2020An extension to the Access to Work scheme is now offering financial support for disabled people working from home or in the workplace during the Coronavirus pandemic. The funding can
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An interview with… Nikki Holt
11th August 2020Nikki is one half of the team behind Makaton with Lucinda (Lucinda being the other!), a lovely vlog posting a sign a day.
An interview with… Christine McGuinness
3rd August 2020For obvious reasons, we’ve had to postpone the BAPS Awards, but this has given us some time to get to know our finalists a bit better in our regular Q&A feature. This time, it’s the turn of our lovely host Christine McGuinness.
New £10m housing fund to tackle shortage of housing for people with learning disabilities
3rd August 2020Many people with a learning disability in the UK continue to live in inappropriate housing. They remain on waiting lists for long periods of time; and are being housed in
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The empty nest for parent carers
28th July 2020As an autistic mum, feelings take me about a year to process. In real time, I may come across preoccupied, restless or simply aloof to the bigger matters at hand.
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