Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors:
-55 resigned
-42 went Independent
-28 defected
-24 were kicked out
-5 lost their seats
-2 disqualified
-2 suspended.
Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
Using disability-related words as insults is a thing of the past. Update your language to build a more equitable world for everyone.
#JustEvolve#WorldDownSyndromeDay#WDSD26
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'I don't want to die': Down's Syndrome man 'starved to death' in hospital
Disabled man died after not being given any food for 9 days whilst being treated in an NHS hospital
Family said “we thought he was having nutrition, but they were starving him”
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Our Wellbeing in Nature group is officially six months old! 🥳
Could channeling your green thumb benefit your mental health?🌻🌺
We've got FREE spaces to join our Thursday morning sessions at The Meadows North Tyneside. Reach out for details. Email [email protected]
Shameful- the local Healthwatch organisations ensure consultation with local residents and making sure that the voices of the marginalised and often overlooked are heard.
The Board of Healthwatch North Tyneside has issued a statement in response to media reports Healthwatch England and more than 150 local Healthwatch organisations are to be scrapped. Read it here:
https://t.co/haDR62bdQ7
Farage: "7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts".
Well here's another cold hard fact for you - 40.6% of GPs in England and Wales are foreign born.
The NHS would collapse without them.
Lovely morning with James and his friends at @Flow_NE_CIC coffee morning to celebrate their 10th birthday at @Old_LowLight. Speech from James and in the words of the duet by him and his friend Rosie, you’re amazing just the way you are.
Love to walk by Killingworth Lake and see what birds I can spot- great crested grebe and 2 cormorants this week as well as numerous swans, tufted ducks, moorhens, mallards, coots and black headed gulls.
Come join us for the annual #WorldMentalHealthDay event in #NorthTyneside! Friday 11 October at Cullercoats Crescent Club, NE30 44PN, 11am - 3pm
FREE event is open to all with live music, comedy, guest speakers, creative activities, a buffet, and signposting to support.
The place set alight last night was Citizens Advice, Sunderland. Its manager this morning told me they’re devastated and now trying to figure out how to help the people they were supposed to see #sunderland