Covid booster vaccine to be offered to millions in England next week | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Care home residents will be first to receive spring top-up jab as infections in England hit 2023 high

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This is so welcomed news to many and enforces that COVID-19 has not gone away. For it is believed that COVID-19 is no longer with us by many, for it so still here and will be for a long time to come.

If you are in the groups who are entitled to receive the vaccine, then please do so to ensure you are as protected as much as you can be.

 

Source: Covid booster vaccine to be offered to millions in England next week | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Endometriosis: black women continue to receive poorer care for the condition

Black women are half as likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis compared to white women.

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This is so wrong, especially that studies have concluded that most, if not all Humans originated in now known Africa.

Then there was the formation of medical science, and the mistaken view that the more white a person is means they are more superior, which in many instances led to the slavery from Africa to the Americas in the 16th century. However, there were many instances of slavery from well before then.

Slavery led to the view that some people were more superior to others or that slaves were a commodity without Human Rights.

Could this be a legacy to how black women are viewed in some areas of the medical profession and perhaps other areas. Certainly in some areas of America black persons are not viewed as being equal to white persons, even to this day and many would bring back slavery if they could. But with the abolition of some of the Rights of Women in some states of America and the reversal of Roe v Wade, anything could be possible.

Rights of women, especially Black women need to be greatly improved, so the medical profession take this seriously, but this needs to be seriously taken in very many areas,

Women are just as equal as men and anywhere that this is not so needs to be changed urgently.

 

Source: Endometriosis: black women continue to receive poorer care for the condition

‘My brother with Down’s Syndrome is slowly spiralling’: The severity of the social care crisis laid bare

Nearly half of social care providers in England have been forced to close part of their organisation or hand back contracts to councils due to cost pressures in the last year, i reveals

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This is the true state of Social Care in the UK and this government is not listening, but then no previous government has listened.

The closed ears of UK governments have lead to this crisis, which if anyone cared to look would have seen it coming well before 2010, but the Tory austerity cuts from then only enhanced the crisis much more and still is to this day, with no seen improvements coming from any future governments.

It is not only with Down’s Syndrome but in every aspect of social care both childrens and adults. It requires an immediate increase, of at least, £12 billion to reverse the decline, but to enable continued sustainability much more in all the coming years. For if it is not done we can say goodbye to social care and following very closely the NHS as well. For without a sustained and credible social care the NHS crisis will continue to get worse no matter how much is given to the NHS.

Social care is the immediate priority and then the NHS. both are in severe deficit of staff, social care more so than the NHS. While NHS staff salaries need to be increased in-line with inflation, all social care not only require an inflation increase in salaries but a massive upgrading from the forthcoming April 2023 £11 per hour to around £13/14 this year and £15 next year. To do nothing more than the increase to £11 of the National Liviving Wage is effectively completely saying social care can end to any degree.

Human rights will be ignored and safeguarding alerts will escalate and everyone will blame social workers when the real culprits will be the government.

 

Source: ‘My brother with Down’s Syndrome is slowly spiralling’: The severity of the social care crisis laid bare

Shortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’ | Social care | The Guardian

Exclusive: Funding hole directly affects elderly people whose bills are entirely or partly paid for by councils

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Yes, the £7 billion is just scratching the surface and will do nothing to improve the quality of social care, just perhaps, stop any further declines.

To improve quality the staff vacancies in all areas of social care need to be filled, but the rates currently being paid to carers will never achieve this, so these rates need to be considerably increased without delay, for to delay the staffing shortages will only get worse.

Even the increase to the National Living Wage to £10.42 in April 2023 will not bring in more care workers for that rate is far from a Living Wage and then it is reduced by having to pay income tax. to bring in more care workers the rate has to be in the region of £14.00 per hour and also an alteration to our immigration criteria to encourage people from outwith the UK to come to work in care.

This Government and all previous governments have allowed by their inability or unwillingness to properly fund social care for social care to continue to deteriorate. this deterioration increases health inequalities which are and will continue to reduce the quality of care in the NHS.

At least £12 billion just for social care is required and this government needs to pay this to local authorities without any further delays, or we can say goodbye to both social care and the NHS.

So to provide substantially more funding for social care and in doing so cover all vacancies and more will not only improve the quality of care in social care, but also the NHS, as both are in dire need of major improvements and currently staffing levels in both can’t do more than they are currently doing.

We need a listening government, but I can’t see this coming from this current government or the next one, be it Labour or Conservative.

Source: Shortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’ | Social care | The Guardian

‘Burning shame as Brits from all sections of society were left in Covid’s crosshairs’ – Anna Morell – Mirror Online

All Covid support has gone, but there are still shielders – disabled people who know their underlying conditions put them at too great a risk from Covid to venture out and reclaim a fully lived life now

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COVID-19 was and perhaps still is viewed as a once in a lifetime situation, but over the years there have been many instances were pandemics could have occurred Bird Flu, to name one and there is influenza, which is a form of COVID, where vaccine is available each year for those who are seen to be at risk and for those in some of the emergency services.

When the COVID-19 vaccine became available, yes, certain groups were deemed to be in need of the vaccine, but not those with Learning Disabilities, (LD), even though many are deemed eligible for the influenza vaccine. Then when they were included for the COVID-19 vaccine, at first it was only those with certain conditions and not all.

You may say that sufficient information was not available, but was it for it is already known that persons with LD, have a life expectancy of on average 20% less to those who don’t have LD, and this is from the LeDeR programme. The resulting reports are sent to the Department of health & Social Security so there is no way that the department can say they were not aware of the information. Perhaps it was decided that persons with LD were not considered to be a sufficient priority as they were deemed to be not important enough, who Knows, perhaps this will come out in Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages, but who knows.

This is a disgrace and shows that this Government and perhaps any government don’t really care about anyone, other than themselves and those who they seem to believe to be important.

Source: ‘Burning shame as Brits from all sections of society were left in Covid’s crosshairs’ – Anna Morell – Mirror Online

Systems for challenging adult social care decisions failing, warns rights regulator – Community Care

The system for challenging councils on their adult social care decisions is failing those who need it, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has warned. Inaccessible information, “complicated and stressful processes” and a lack of advocacy were undermining people’s ability to challenge local authority decisions in England and Wales, the rights regulator found, on […]

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Mostly I agree with the points raised and certainly more needs to be done to make the processes more equitable and so much easier to go through. But, in many instances it is down to trust, for a good proportion of the population are scared of very large organisations and certainly those who appear to have great power, which Local Authorities, (LAs) certainly have.

Over the years I have submitted many complaints to my LA, and in the main my complaints have been upheld, but the process can be very long, so is very time consuming and exceedingly stressful.

I was caring for my daughter for going on 40 years and over time became much more knowledgeable about processes and certainly what mine and my daughters Rights were.

I studied the legislations including the Care Act 2014 and I became aware that a significant number of LA staff were not very aware of what was in the Care Act, and also became aware that in some instances the Care Act was being ignored to some extent, either by design or lack of knowledge.

That being said, in one Formal complaint, I became so incensed about the complaints procedure that I added to the complaint , a complaint about the procedure.

Only once have I progressed a complaint to the Ombudsman, but was told I submitted to them too late, even though this was due to the LA taking over a year to forward to me their final response. To have a deadline to submit, to me is totally wrong and does not take into account the stresses encountered by persons with needs and their carers which in many instances can be considerable.

Also, the Ombudsman only takes into account whether the processes were fully followed and not the right or wrongs of any decision, which again needs to be rectified. So does the opportunities to raise a Judicial Review, which over the years has been made much more difficult due to Governments making it more difficult for persons to obtain Legal Aid to fund the process, having to rely on finding a law firm to take on by ‘No Win, No Fee’.

A ‘no win, no fee’ agreement, also known as a conditional fee agreement, is an arrangement between you and your personal injury solicitor. It means that if your compensation claim is unsuccessful, you will not have to pay a contingency fee for your lawyer’s services.
While the Care Quality Commission is being given more powers, it should be given much more including the provision to investigate complaints.

I had the ability to understand, over the years, the process and have the strength and ability to go through the processes. At times having to explain my Right to complain by any media I wished to use, being in writing, by telephone, by email, etc and not as I was informed on occasions only on their complaint form and at times advised I would have to go through a more senior staff member, which again is untrue. So, I have had to talk through some LA staff what the process is.

Over the years I have become so much more involved with my LA, in that they call upon me to help them in various ways, as they wish to avail themselves of my ‘Expert by Experience’ knowledge and over the years have seen some improvements to some degree.

I am now 73 and took early retirement at 62 due to health, but this gave me more opportunities to be involved and I am now a regular contributor to many areas within my LA. But I have over the years become involved with my local Healthwatch, Health Authorities and many over local voluntary and Charity organisations.

I do appreciate that many others will not have the time, the strength and other requirements to do what I have and continue to do, so I do hope by doing what I do I am helping to improve what is there not only for my own family, but for many others too.

Unfortunately, over the last few years I had to deal with the death of my wife in September 2020 and my dear daughter in October 2022 and my involvement in the areas above have in many ways been helping me to deal with these losses and I have received many supporting comments from persons I am in contact with in my LA and other organisations.

To me complaining and then being involved in other ways has been, in most respects, good for me and my family and have been able to become much closer to the processes which are not easy to deal with and to know the people I am dealing with. This will not be possible for most of the population, but I do hope in time more improvements will be made.

The largest of these is funding, which since 2010 for all LAs has been well short of what is required due to Tory austerity cuts and really needs to be reversed. The government said the cuts would be absorbed through saving being made, well in most respects there were not opportunities to make saving, unless cuts to services were made, which there has been to many, if not all services, leading to great deterioration to the lives of many.

This Government and all future governments need to ensure that funding cuts are not the way forward and lead to much more deprivation and many more inequalities.

 

Source: Systems for challenging adult social care decisions failing, warns rights regulator – Community Care

Social Care Costs See Thousands Chased For Debt

It doesn’t help those who are contributing to their Social Care, but since 2010 the Tory governments have been subjecting Local Authorities (LAs) to totally unjustified austerity cuts, thereby drastically reducing the income they have to fund services, but all blame for service cuts is placed on LAs and not the Government, which it should be, Governments have to be made accountable. Yes, we have General elections every 4/5 years, but accountability should be immediate not some years hence.

But LAs are not completely blameless, for the Financial Assessments leave a lot to be desired, for some assessors as, I have come across, don’t fully understand the system they are using to do the assessments.

The biggest omission I find is with regards to Disability Related Expenses, (DREs) which is expenditure which persons with disability/health conditions have to make, but these expenses can be offset to the Social Care charge. Of course, proof of these payments are required and this is perhaps another problem for how many of us keep such information.

So, the problem is at least 2 fold, DREs are not always discussed or if they are not in sufficient detail, but then there is the lack of proof people will have retained to prove they made the expenditure.

Another problem is when disability benefits are increased, this increase is included in the social care calculation, so much of the increase will not be available to the person claiming social care has it has been incorporated into the charge they will have to pay for their social care.

But, another problem is the discriminatory nature of what disabilities and conditions are deemed to be social care as opposed to health care. With health care there is no direct charge to the claimant, as there is with social care.

While social care is processed by the local authority social care department, the health portion is processed by the Health Continuing Health Care department, (CHC) and both processes are dealt with separately, sometimes within the same meeting with the claimant, but in other separately.

If it is deemed that there could be a health element to the care required then further investigation could be in the form of 24 hour health grids where each individual action has to be recorded in detail including the time taken to perform the action. The information I have found is from the previous Clinical Commissioning Group, (CCG), but these have been replaced by ICBs from 1 July 2022, but here is the latest information about care I have found.

Then the lengthy process of deciding if there is a health element and if there is the split between health and social care which can be a very lengthy time process. While the implementation of care should not be delayed while this debate is occurring it does in many instances, thereby causing, in some instances, much delay for much need care to be implemented.
All of this takes precious time which should be being spent on receiving the care required, that is if persons to care for the person needing can be found, which is another great problem, as there is a major insufficiency of carers for a number of reasons, mainly down to the lack of funding for social care, which leads to very poor rates of pay for carers, poor working conditions, including lack of suitable holiday pay, travel expenses, sick pay and more, but also due to the UK Immigration Policies which are not great for persons wishing to come to the UK to be carers. Much needs to be done, but it appears very little is being done, currently to remedy any, if at all the problems.
Care is deteriorating in many ways, the availability, the standards and much more, this government and all future governments need to wake up and understand, appreciate and sufficiently fund social care.

Same Difference

More than 60,000 adults with disabilities and long-term illnesses in England were chased for debts by councils last year after failing to pay for their social care support at home.

Claimants told the BBC they can’t afford the charges amid rising food and rent prices, along with the additional costs of living with disabilities.

Councils took legal action against 330 people in 2021-22.

The Local Government Association said such action was a “last option”.

Councils ask social care recipients to contribute towards the home care they receive in nearly all areas of England, but previous BBC research found charges had risen by thousands of pounds a year for some adults.

Some disabled people have now told the BBC they felt they had little choice but to live without home care, while others said they feared bailiffs being called in over unpaid debts.

Campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts said the…

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Autism: How My Autistic Foster Brother Inspired My Life’s Work

Yes, caring can bring so much to any relationships, when it is done as it should be, but it needs a great deal of understanding, flexibility, respect and being so adaptable to whatever occurs and much more, especially putting the person who may need care at the centre of everything.

These skills are essential and not everyone will have them or more than likely not aware that they have them, especially at the start. It is learning from all who are involved, the persons who may need care, the persons providing care and any others.

This was so much with myself for I joined my to be wife’s family in 1984 and knew nothing about any disabilities and not even come really across any persons with disabilities and having no brothers or sisters not even sharing my life with anyone except my own parents. My wife, a single parent looking after 3 children for many years, 2 daughters and one son.

As I joined the family the son was leaving home to be married, leaving the 2 daughters, youngest being 13 and the next 15 being the daughter with disabilities. She had severe learning disabilities and multiple physical and a sensory disabilities. Her communication was very limited, but everyone took to each other very well.

I had a very steep learning curve to climb and took time to understand what was involved and gradually helped in any ways I could. Not only did I not know, initially about disabilities but had no experience in dealing with the respective authorities, so followed my wife’s lead to a major extent. Over time, not really sure how long, but certainly within less than a year I gained the experience to deal with more, even the authorities and with my then wife became a good team in looking after both daughters. As time went on my wife’s health started to deteriorate, most likely due to the pressures of caring over the years, especially being a lone parent. Around 2000 I became aware of Autism and from what I understood with this awareness I was convinced that my disabled daughter was also autistic and eventually managed to obtain an autistic diagnosis. Becoming aware of autism provided many answers to the behaviours being shown and experienced by my daughter with disabilities and I became much better at being able to understand many, if not all of her behaviours, but learning never goes away, for there is always so much more to learn.

Yes, her behaviours could have been challenging, but only because of ignorance in how to correctly assess and then deal with them appropriately.

This was further enhanced when we had to start to engage with carers, as my wife’s health continued to deteriorate and my own starting to do so.

We started by employing our own, which were funded through direct payments from our Local Authority, but we went through many carers until we found and engaged with a few which we could trust and had complete confidence in, not that the others were not competent, but when having people within your own household, being your own home and a place of employment for others much more is required for good employee and employer relationships, let alone the relationships with the person being cared for, which in the most essential.

Eventually, this had to become a 24/7 care package and while retaining the 2 carers we employed directly used a care provider for the rest of the care package. After an initial problem with the original care provider we found another with whom we could work with well and as time went on it worked perfectly, not only did they understand our household they did all they could to find carers that fitted in well. Not always successful, but where not they provided more carers until a great team was found.

Unfortunately my wife died on 26 September 2020 but with the good team of carers the great care was maintained for my daughter and at times they were also looking after me, to some extent, during my own loss.

Even though the care for my daughter was great, due to her disabilities her conditions continued to deteriorate to some degree and health authorities were consulted as and where and when required and this was good too. My daughters wish and my own and my late wife’s were that our daughter lived with us at home and with the great care she was receiving this was how it progressed.

But on 4 October 2022 my daughter succumbed to her deteriorating health and as everyone was so devoted to her, the loss of her was severely felt by everyone.

Even now some 4 months on many of the carers are still in touch with me and we are helping each other to come to terms with our loss.

Over the years I have been using all my experiences gained in being in my family and talking to other carers and their families and use this in my dealing with our local Government and health authouritie and disability charities, being on various committees and some Boards.

Not only am I using my experiences gained, but it is helping myself in dealing with my own losses.

So being involved can and is good for many reasons and even if behaviours can be seen to challenge this should not be seen as a problem to be feared, but problems to understand and deal with appropriately, for we are all experts in our own fields and all need to be seen as such and everyone is or should be part of the team be they paid professionals, family, volunteers and others, but essentially the person at the centre the person in need of care.

In this all will be better cared for, but funding can’t and should never be ignored for both health and social care are left well short of the funds required, perhaps social care even more so than health, in many instances, not only causing insufficiency of services available, but severe staff shortages, and the moral of all concerned.

Funding and sufficient funding to maintain sustainability has to be a major priority and in this the Government needs to listen and fully understand, which is currently not occurring.

But they have to for the sustainability of health and social care services and for the continued lives of persons with disabilities and their families.

Families can only do so much, currently saving the UK £193 billion a year. Carers UK, Yes, caring can bring so much to any relationships, when it is done as it should be, but it needs a great deal of understanding, flexibility, respect and being so adaptable to whatever occurs and much more, especially putting the person who may need care at the centre of everything.

These skills are essential and not everyone will have them or more than likely not aware that they have them, especially at the start. It is learning from all who are involved, the persons who may need care, the persons providing care and any others.

This was so much with myself for I joined my to be wife’s family in 1984 and knew nothing about any disabilities and not even come really across any persons with disabilities and having no brothers or sisters not even sharing my life with anyone except my own parents. My wife, a single parent looking after 3 children for many years, 2 daughters and one son.

As I joined the family the son was leaving home to be married, leaving the 2 daughters, youngest being 13 and the next 15 being the daughter with disabilities. She had severe learning disabilities and multiple physical and a sensory disabilities. Her communication was very limited, but everyone took to each other very well.

I had a very steep learning curve to climb and took time to understand what was involved and gradually helped in any ways I could. Not only did I not know, initially about disabilities but had no experience in dealing with the respective authorities, so followed my wife’s lead to a major extent. Over time, not really sure how long, but certainly within less than a year I gained the experience to deal with more, even the authorities and with my then wife became a good team in looking after both daughters. As time went on my wife’s health started to deteriorate, most likely due to the pressures of caring over the years, especially being a lone parent. Around 2000 I became aware of Autism and from what I understood with this awareness I was convinced that my disabled daughter was also autistic and eventually managed to obtain an autistic diagnosis. Becoming aware of autism provided many answers to the behaviours being shown and experienced by my daughter with disabilities and I became much better at being able to understand many, if not all of her behaviours, but learning never goes away, for there is always so much more to learn.

Yes, her behaviours could have been challenging, but only because of ignorance in how to correctly assess and then deal with them appropriately.

This was further enhanced when we had to start to engage with carers, as my wife’s health continued to deteriorate and my own starting to do so.

We started by employing our own, which were funded through direct payments from our Local Authority, but we went through many carers until we found and engaged with a few which we could trust and had complete confidence in, not that the others were not competent, but when having people within your own household, being your own home and a place of employment for others much more is required for good employee and employer relationships, let alone the relationships with the person being cared for, which in the most essential.

Eventually, this had to become a 24/7 care package and while retaining the 2 carers we employed directly used a care provider for the rest of the care package. After an initial problem with the original care provider we found another with whom we could work with well and as time went on it worked perfectly, not only did they understand our household they did all they could to find carers that fitted in well. Not always successful, but where not they provided more carers until a great team was found.

Unfortunately my wife died on 26 September 2020 but with the good team of carers the great care was maintained for my daughter and at times they were also looking after me, to some extent, during my own loss.

Even though the care for my daughter was great, due to her disabilities her conditions continued to deteriorate to some degree and health authorities were consulted as and where and when required and this was good too. My daughters wish and my own and my late wife’s were that our daughter lived with us at home and with the great care she was receiving this was how it progressed.

But on 4 October 2022 my daughter succumbed to her deteriorating health and as everyone was so devoted to her, the loss of her was severely felt by everyone.

Even now some 4 months on many of the carers are still in touch with me and we are helping each other to come to terms with our loss.

Over the years I have been using all my experiences gained in being in my family and talking to other carers and their families and use this in my dealing with our local Government and health authourities and disability charities, being on various committees and some Boards.

Not only am I using my experiences gained, but it is helping myself in dealing with my own losses.

So being involved can and is good for many reasons and even if behaviours can be seen to challenge this should not be seen as a problem to be feared, but problems to understand and deal with appropriately, for we are all experts in our own fields and all need to be seen as such and everyone is or should be part of the team be they paid professionals, family, volunteers and others, but essentially the person at the centre the person in need of care.

In this all will be better cared for, but funding can’t and should never be ignored for both health and social care are left well short of the funds required, perhaps social care even more so than health, in many instances, not only causing insufficiency of services available, but severe staff shortages, and the moral of all concerned.

Funding and sufficient funding to maintain sustainability has to be a major priority and in this the Government needs to listen and fully understand, which is currently not occurring.

But they have to for the sustainability of health and social care services and for the continued lives of persons with disabilities and their families.

Families can only do so much, currently saving the UK £193 billion a year. Carers UK,

Same Difference

A woman who passed up going to university to care for her autistic foster brother has described how he inspired her to set up her own behavioural therapy centre.

Risca Solomon, from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, first met Dan when he was four years old.

His previous respite placements had broken down due to his challenging behaviour.

But Ms Solomon, whose parents were foster carers, wanted to help.

“When I first met Dan I was 18 and on work experience at a special school, and he touched my heart,” Ms Solomon said.

“I begged my parents, who’d been foster and respite carers since I was 11, to step in.”

Her parents were reluctant at first due to the level of care Dan would need, something they felt was beyond their level of experience and expertise.

But they agreed after Ms Solomon promised to be one of his primary care givers.

“It changed…

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The victim-shaming of Nicola Bulley has thrown an unflattering light on modern Britain

She’s the focus of ghoulish conspiracies and the police threw her reputation under the bus – her disappearance brought out the worst of us

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Yes, this is pure and simple victim-shaming, and yes, she was a vulnerable person, but, in our own way are not most of us to one extent or another.

For the Police to do their job there needs to be trust, but this trust is forever being broken, and not just the Lancashire force, but many others.

South Yorkshire for Hillsborough, Rotherham Sexual abuse scandal and others, then the MET, well where do you start, at least 6 under Cressida Dick, but even newer, including Carrick and Couzens scandals.  But there are many more and maybe many more to surface throughout the UK.

There are many Police officers who are doing a good job, but the actions of the few are being seen as to how all forces are operating.

It is said that years ago we all, mostly, trusted the Police and looked on them to help and not cause us harm, do we really want to become so afraid of the police as in America, where it appears to be shot first and ask questions later, if that is possible. But did we, I feel in the main we did, but that trust is no longer there in most respects and even more so in ethnic communities.

So how can we progress, well every police force needs an in-depth investigation, not by themselves and not really by other forces, but by a fully independent body, who is made up of a representative body of the UK population and all members of the body should have equal authority within that body. The respective reports would then need to be made public and any actions that need to be taken are taken. In any serious implications, some appropriate action could need to be taken before the report is published.

For all our own safety the trust in the police has to be recovered and then actions put in place to ensure the trust is maintained and errors of the past are not allowed to reoccur.

Safeguarding is extremely important and always needs to be a high priority.

Did some of this relate to the Tories cutting back on Police numbers so saving could be made, perhaps, but was it there well before, well cutting numbers certainly didn’t help as we have seen in many other areas, NHS for one, Social Care in another, but in many sections of the UK.

Pay freezes and austerity cuts are never the way and these all need to be reversed without any further delay. Otherwise there is no real way forward. Human Rights have to be respected and been seen to be respected

 

 

 

Source: The victim-shaming of Nicola Bulley has thrown an unflattering light on modern Britain

A Ukrainian Village’s Month in Captivity in a Basement | Time

In this place where Russian troops held everyone in Yahidne—more than 350 people—captive, a list of the dead still remains etched on a wall

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Russian forces in their invasion of Ukraine have committed many attrocities, this is just one and shows why all Russian Troops have to be driven from every part of Ukraine.

They have no thoughts for anyone, except themselves.

There so many untold War Crimes occurring, but, in time everyone committing them will be held to account.

Putin has to be defeated and then be prosecuted for all the War Crimes his illegal invasion of Ukraine has allowed to occur along with all the others.

Western Leaders provide all that Ukraine requires without any further delays, for delays only allow for more Russian war crimes to be committed.

 

Source: A Ukrainian Village’s Month in Captivity in a Basement | Time