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The true price of disability

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It seems to me that one of the most disabling aspects of disability is cost. The extra money that you are required to throw at life just to buy your way in is sometimes so much that actually leading a normal life isn't a choice, it's something you have to avoid to make sure your bank manager doesn't come and hunt you down. Now I know that sometimes the press struggle to portray people living with disabilities as normal people, tending instead to fall one one or other side of amazing superhero athlete or benefit scrounger, or sometimes both. The truth ...

Identifying and Addressing Harassment in the Workplace

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A healthy workplace culture is built on respect, inclusivity, and fair treatment. Unfortunately, harassment and discrimination remain challenges that many employees face daily, often causing emotional and psychological distress. Addressing these issues effectively starts with understanding the different forms harassment can take and recognizing the importance of a safe and supportive environment for everyone. Workplace harassment encompasses various behaviors intended to demean, intimidate, or create a hostile atmosphere based on personal characteristics like race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. Harassment can range from unwelcome comments to overtly aggressive actions, and it often includes offensive language, inappropriate gestures, and exclusionary practices. Experiencing ...

Thank you for the freedom

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Dominic Quantum iLevel

Most people are lucky enough to find that freedom is not something that they need to be given, it is just something that we all, unknowingly, take for granted, only realising what a luxury it is if one day it is taken away. However trapped we might sometimes feel by our responsibilities, it is not freedom that we are being denied. We could, after all, make the decision to walk out on our children when they are irritating us. However, most of us, choose not to even though sometimes it might be tempting to let social services break up the screaming ...

And then he fell off the cliff

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Elliot school EHCP

Today a room full of strangers will sit down and make a decision that will either give my eldest child permission to have the same opportunities as other children his age, or condemn us to face another year of tears, frustration and desperation. As other children have returned to school with varying amounts of enthusiasm, our Local Authority expected Elliot to stay in bed. He shouldn't have got up and dressed and packed his bag, he shouldn't have come with me to the pick up point and he shouldn't have willingly got on the minibus and waved me goodbye. He shouldn't ...

Freedom is more than a state of mind, it’s a wheelchair

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Dominic power wheelchair sports day quote

  Most of us take our independence for granted. Every day we are free to make decisions and act on them. If we are thirsty we make ourselves a drink, if we need the toilet we go searching for one, if we are bored by something we are free to walk away and if a huge, scary spider decides to sit next to us we can run screaming. This is a freedom that we unquestionably accept from our very first faltering attempts at crawling, right up until our bodies are too frail and tired to comply anymore. The ability to exert control over ...