Beverley Samways

Founder / director of Unique Connections, which exists to improve the lives of those with learning disabilities and autism who self-injure.

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Welcome to the Unique Connections family - https://t.co/tPFsxC66ax

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Welcome to the Unique Connections family - https://t.co/ufqngZNS95

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Completely agree. This language amounts to a slow, insipid indoctrination that there are 'working people' on one side and everyone else on the other side. And we have to pick a side. It's divisive - and it's an intentional set up for cuts against the most vulnerable.

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

So upsetting to see Labour continue to divide 'working people' (worthy of help) from people who can't work (worthy of demonising). Not very progressive, Rachel. The Victorians would recognise the language here

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space….
Laughed all the way through this article. Thought someone else might need the same at the end of A Tuesday. https://t.co/CEbfIQ77uK

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

@garyseconomics Absolutely. We know you won’t pull any punches. Let’s go!

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

@Neilsocialist @Keir_Starmer Thanks @Neilsocialist, for having the courage of your convictions.

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

@LearningMet Congratulations 🥳

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The Prime Minister was unable to answer a simple question today about why a disabled person who needs help to eat, wash and manage toilet needs could no longer get PIP under his proposals.

The Government must drop this cruel proposal or it’ll face the mother of all rebellions.

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Just found this in a post-incident debrief form for patients in a NHS mental health unit.
You're detained under the MHA and you've been restrained, where would this debrief question take you...

'In your mind, what led to the incident?'

'In your mind...'

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

It feels too bizarre to be true - but our labour government is taking money off the most vulnerable to put into a war machine...

[Rightful Lives @RightfulLives]

Have you any idea how terrified people with learning disabilities and autistic people are right now @Keir_Starmer? And they certainly won’t be getting any support on this from social care or the NHS.

@UKLabour #benefitscuts #DisabilityBenefits

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

In our current season, we're exploring how trauma-informed care can be applied in organisations supporting people with severe learning disabilities. Come and listen and we'd love to hear your thoughts...

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

I met with the team from The Loddon School for a conversation about trauma and learning disabilities.
Check it out here:
On The Spectrum Podcast - Ep. 11 Dr Beverley Samways, Unique Connections https://t.co/dk0n0EfjLv via @YouTube

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

So many great conversations with senior staff doing amazing work @swalss_uk this morning. If we didn’t get a chance to connect, just reach out….

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Currently coding restraint policies from NHS mental health units to investigate how they are incorporating Seni's Law requirements for people with learning disabilities... and came across this phrase:
'All staff must understand the mechanisms of death in restraint'🤯 I mean...

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Excellent work @RightfulLives
Thank you for articulating so well what I was spluttering to myself about when I first read this... 👌

[Rightful Lives @RightfulLives]

Our statement regarding a paper published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

https://t.co/LNaGfrqgPN

@AmandaPritchard @ClaireCNWL @wesstreeting @TheBJPsych @CareQualityComm @DHSCgovuk @rcpsych @mencap_charity @Autism @BILD_tweets @DavidAltonHL @KeeleyMP @RamseyjJane @BaronessHollins

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Incredibly helpful to distinguish these. the mixing of these two things up actually erodes culture over time.

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

I had a conversation today about the difference between "kindness" & "niceness" in leadership so I decided to post about it. The article & graphic explain why, as leaders, we should choose kindness over niceness. Kindness is about caring enough to push people toward greatness, even when it’s uncomfortable. It’s a harder path but better in the long run:
https://t.co/8fow4ZEmWN. By @emb928
Graphic: @thejustinmecham via @dangrimes1980

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

This pragmatic honesty is refreshing… many of us in the care sector are busting a gut to facilitate the secure employment of gifted migrant workers we desperately need. But we’re working against the grain… the narrative and the system needs reforming. https://t.co/I8IU2ChrRR

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

@MorrisonBeth This is infuriating - and the idea that banning a word somehow alters what something actually is.

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

Lovely day out for us at Unique Connections #sua2024 as Start Up For Good finalists 😊🎉🙌🏽

[Beverley Samways @BeverleySamways]

@scottygb They've entered the meta meta meta verse. They should probably have a press release about that reading, 'we are having an internal inquiry about worrying levels of introspection'.