Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness

Kinship care supports thousands of children raised by relatives when parents can’t look after them — but what happens when they turn 18?

An interesting read however Millar needs to redefine his understanding of disability before making such statements.

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading...

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests

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‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding Man housed at hotel targeted in protests writes letter urging people not to resort to harmful stereotypes

‘Every human being deserves dignity’: asylum seeker in Essex hotel calls for understanding

Such a pure way of undoing ... quietens the mind...

Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick Segregation does not make going outside any safer or more comfortable for women – it only reinforces the idea that the public sphere belongs to men

Women in India don’t want ‘safe zones’ – they want to enjoy public spaces as equals | Nilanjana Bhowmick

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell

Thank-you for your continued voice of sensibility, rationality and belief. So wish you governed this nation.

Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’ Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraud * UK politics live – latest updates The mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has demanded an end to the “sickening harassment” of unpaid carers after a significant legal victory against the government. Nicola Green, 42, was pursued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for more than a year after she was accused of fraudulently claiming nearly £3,000 in carer’s allowance. Continue reading...

Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’

Utterly beautiful...

I got a loan to help me pay for my dad's funeral. It sent me spiralling into debt

The Poverty Alliance and Fair By Design gave cameras to 15 people on low incomes to show what being refused credit or a loan meant for them.

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database US health secretary claims data will be used for research but has not addressed privacy concerns and potential misuse Autism researchers and advocates are pushing back against the creation of an autism database – meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study – and pointing to the ways such databases could be misused. While the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denies it’s a registry, the agency did confirm a sweeping database of autistic people will power a $50m study on autism. Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said last week that he plans to announce results from the study within months. Continue reading...

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks.

But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof.

They were held in prison for 3 days then deported.

DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute Hugh Kirsch’s case one of wave of evictions of vulnerable residents caused by crisis in adult social care funding A pensioner with severe learning disabilities who was a victim of one of the most notorious care home abuse scandals of recent years has been told he faces eviction over a dispute about who pays for the costs of his state-funded care. The family of Hugh Kirsch, 66, said they had been warned he would have to leave his supported home because the council that funds his care refused to increase fees in line with costs and his care provider could no longer afford to subsidise the price. Continue reading...

Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute

Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026

Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa

NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter Exclusive: Richard Harris, 71, died last July after series of errors at troubled Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton A troubled NHS trust has apologised to the family of a man who died after a series of potentially fatal delays to treat a tumour, in a case that is being investigated by police as possible corporate manslaughter. Richard Harris, 71, died last July after a series of errors in the neurosurgery department at the Royal Sussex County hospital in Brighton, which is part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS foundation trust (UHSussex). Continue reading...

NHS trust apologises as man’s tumour death investigated for manslaughter

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’ I saw first hand how prisons are having to use segregation units for acutely mentally ill inmates who should not be in prison at all

My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’

Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe What is a nation? There are several, varying definitions, but ultimately it comes down to the same answer: a large…

Wales is the land of song. Now it’s being silenced by cuts that threaten our culture | Will Hayward

This begins to address current concerns on the disappearing presence and the multiple values of dance within learning. There is much more to say and far more to do to ensure dance is reinstated for all it has to offer...

Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career Exclusive: Several women claim City grandee exploited his position to harass or sexually assault them in the 1990s One of the world’s most celebrated financiers, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, has been accused of exploiting his position at the storied bank to…

Late financier Evelyn de Rothschild accused of abuse during banking career

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone Last September, I received an email from a reader called Rosy. At just 53, motor neurone disease meant Rosy was losing her body as she knew it,…

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan

This is what genocide looks like.

Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth Culture secretary announces investment in arts at Gateshead summit and accuses Tories of stifling creative industries • UK politics live – latest updates Arts and the creative industries will be a key part of the UK government’s drive for economic…

Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth

‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland People in Maga hats at lunch with Trump Jr last week did not know him and were invited in off the street, hotel boss says A group of Greenlanders who attended a lunch hosted by Donald Trump Jr wearing Make America Great Again caps were not dedicated…

‘Homeless people given free lunch’ to attend Donald Trump Jr event in Greenland

Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman Summer Betts-Ramsey and three others given youth detention for attack on victim who had misled one of the defendants over gender identity A woman who carried out a transphobic stabbing attack motivated by a “distorted notion of revenge” has been…

Woman with ‘distorted notion of revenge’ sentenced for stabbing transgender woman

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