Dave Denison

We Can Make an Impact. Keeping the DSA specific to those with Downs Syndrome

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So having been on a high, four years ago when the Down Syndrome Bill became an Act, all those 47,000 families have now had the rug pulled out from under their feet - to satisfy the spending plans of a Government claiming to protect minorities.

SHAME ON THEM

Even when diagnosed there are virtually no specialist care services for the different symptoms those with Downs suffer in addition to the usual pernicious effects of the disease. Many of them suffer seizures. If they go to a “standard” dementia care home their life chance diminish immediately.

The different needs of people with Downs Syndrome are best illustrated by their susceptibility to Alzheimer’s. 50% of them develop the disease by 55. This is 6x the prevalence of the learning disability cohort, and a massive 96x more than the wider population.

Four years after Down’s syndrome law, nothing has changed Campaigners for people with the condition to be given tailored support say the measures promised have failed to materialise

If you can access the pay wall the article at :-

www.thetimes.com/article/8712...

Please read this article in The Times today. It reports the frustration of 47K families that include a person with Downs Syndrome. They have seen the DS Act, passed in 2022, neutered by ministers & bureaucrats by proposing guidance which fails to recognise the different needs of people with Downs.

I bet he thinks this is a completely different issue…that is if thinking comes into either situation.

John Profumo was a good role model for later scandal generators.

Petrol cap still seems to work.

…or a books guy - apparently!

…and he’s still alive!

Hooray - Massimo comes to Bluesky! This account was the only one I missed when I left X - and this is despite the fact that Musk thought it was one of the best sites on there. Welcome.

Costing more even now it’s been scrapped.

…could be a sacrifice.

“I didn’t understand what he’s saying…I don’t think he understands what he’s saying”. Trump on Biden, or the world on Trump?

World at One gave the story over 25 minutes this lunchtime. BBC seem determined to get down into the murky depths of internecine battles between far right politicians.
It’s not as if there is a lack of world issues going on right now!

I agree. But all Zahawi is proving is that he’s two-faced. We knew that already, didn’t we, from his fraudulent tax dealings? It just gives people more reasons not to trust a politician when their lips are moving.

Never heard anyone say either of first two examples. Third fits the definition. “Dip out” would work, but not just “dip”.

Got it without any mistakes…BUT greens are not all software platforms! …AND blues do not all mean take off to a Brit.

D&R plus L&G. We’ve celebrated New Year together since 2001, with two or three near misses.

Happy New Year everyone! We’ve changed the format of our traditional photo this year, but not the sentiment.

Yes - your cat.

That’ll be egg on toast then, eh?

So sorry you had to go through with this - a brave and responsible decision. If this is an example of balance at the BBC, when can we expect them to fire one of the bigots they still give airtime to?

I didn’t know they did left handed ones

Does this mean none of our replies makes you even smile a little…never mind laugh? If this is your full range of emotions I think I’d pack it in!

Is this an irony post???

Why would anyone in their right mind (….‘Cept the traitor, obvs) prefer to end the game with three players rather than two? Twice as likely to have included a Traitor.

Yes, really good. But where is the future supply of Dead White Males in the art market going to come from?

If Baroness Casey has so much time to pick up yet another Government Enquiry, why can’t she get on straightaway with the Independent Commission into Social Care, which Labour has pushed into the long grass - not reporting till 2028. By that time, this government won’t have enough time to legislate.

Anything Reform can do, Tories can do better! I don’t want a “mostly….coherent group of people”.