Helen Dolan

[Audrey Gillan @audreygillan]

Today I found a beautiful hand-knitted baby’s cashmere blanket, lost on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street. If you could please retweet we might find the baby that someone loves enough to knit a lovely thing. Thank you.

[Mike Dailly @mikedailly]

“My colleagues at Govan Law Centre have examples including where a person was paying £62.30 per week for social care but from April this year is now being charged £103.14. That is a massive 65% hike in charges”. https://t.co/JQmHEhRYwl

[Linda McCafferty @mccafferty2]

How can it be so shameful that Lennox Castle patients who are now living in the community, are attending weekly foodbanks, due to council invoicing £400 monthly interim care charges to them - it needs to stop for *ALL* disabled people . https://t.co/FsDQu7PZ3P

[Mike Dailly @mikedailly]

“How can £20m be cut without reducing the care packages of people in Glasgow? Let’s not forget social care packages are based upon medical evidence and social work assessments. You can’t just come along and reduce provision by a quarter or so”. https://t.co/fpH1TvWAAa

[Shubhanna Hussain @Shubhanna]

What on earth is going on with the funding priorities here! Because the message this is sending to all of us is that lives of people with profound learning disabilities are just not worth investing in!
A shocking and awful decision for the staff at @PAMIS_Scotland 😔

[Simon J Duffy @simonjduffy]

This little film is a reminder of why we don't need institutions we need #unaBuenaVidaEnLaComunidad
https://t.co/cXm4O1U3s0 @mikieboy83 @radicalvisions_

[Mike Dailly @mikedailly]

I'm aware that sheriff officers in Scotland are now instructed to pursue carers of severely disabled persons for non-residential care services. Something the FM promised to abolish last year if re-elected. https://t.co/Rk1bLfeIR9

[Helen Dolan @HelenD95]

@CalMac_Updates Travelling with my disabled son on the 12.45 ferry from Port Ellen tomorrow. Hospital appointment Tuesday afternoon for my son can't be missed. Still waiting on updates. Stressed beyond belief. Update ASAP please

[Shubhanna Hussain @Shubhanna]

The inability to implement Self Directed Support has been one of the most costly failures for social care in Scotland. An excellent (and human rights based) piece of legislation with so much potential - and yet almost every local authority has managed to screw it up!

[Jo Whiley @jowhiley]

This is unbearable and makes me so so angry. We MUST do better for the Learning Disabled who are dependent on others. Awful 😞

[Helen Dolan @HelenD95]

Not 1 reply from any of mine I now definitely know that politicians are the biggest waste of space on earth. I've emailed them all over the years asking for help for my disabled son and they've produced nothing should hang their heads in shame

[carer L @speyquine]

I sent out an email to all of my constituency and regional candidates asking them if they will commit to backing the #carersManifesto a week ago. Two replies. I expected more. Tim Eagle (Con) and Lewis Whyte (Lab) have replied so far.
#MorayConstituency #HighlandsAndIslandsList

[Finlaggan @finlaggantrust]

The Finlaggan Trust has just launched a Justgiving campaign seeking financial assistance for the construction of a new walkway: https://t.co/DUzPEpuYVp. Please help us maintain this valuable historic site.

[Jo Whiley @jowhiley]

Thanks to @AndrewMarr9 @BBCOne for asking me to talk about my sister and her ongoing battle with Covid.
I felt I owed it to the LD community to explain the unique challenges they face with this horrific virus & to let them know they are not forgotten or of less value in society.

[Linda McCafferty @mccafferty2]

So true - Ian Rankin: 'Why does it take celebrity voices for the disabled to be heard?' https://t.co/XWLCFgkHm7

[Saba Salman @Saba_Salman]

I've yet to read or hear one single convincing, logical reason why learning disabled people aren't being vaccinated. Yet daily we're seeing vast amount of evidence (quantitative and qualitative data - human stories) proving this makes practical and moral sense. Makes no sense.

[Sarah Leigh (she/her) @sarahleighfilm]

I have Covid. The breathlessness is awful. I’m caring for a child with a severe learning disability. @MattHancock you NEED to prioritise unpaid carers for the vaccine. Those caring for family at home. I’ve lost respite care, school and I’m ill. What happens to those we care for?

[Linda McCafferty @mccafferty2]

The 75p illusion #UnpaidCarers https://t.co/OB6U3OxKsP

[Linda McCafferty @mccafferty2]

The court said that this discrimination was “serious” High court care charging victory ‘highlights flawed social care system’ https://t.co/KJDZtD3tBk via @johnpringdns

[Helen Dolan @HelenD95]

@mormegs A truly brilliant granny with an amazing granddaughter. Onwards and upwards

[Megan @mormegs]

My granny married at 15, had 12 kids including my da & raised them in a 3 bedroom house in a council estate during a conflict. Yesterday, I graduated from my house on that same estate, becoming the first person in my family to ever have a master's degree. Uppa first gen!!