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Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

A Big Issue reader points out the history of injustices people with learning difficulties have faced in the UK

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break
Sport

This snooker club is giving people with physical and learning disabilities their big break

Former snooker pro Stephen Harrison’s club is changing lives in Sheffield

My life was ruined when I was wrongly convicted of a sex crime – I didn’t even get an apology
Criminal justice

My life was ruined when I was wrongly convicted of a sex crime – I didn’t even get an apology

Gareth Jones’s life was destroyed when he was wrongfully convicted of a crime. Ten years later, he finally cleared his name, yet he will not receive any compensation because of a change in the law

Life is more sparkly having a sister with Down’s syndrome
Emily Potter and Sophie Potter

Life is more sparkly having a sister with Down’s syndrome

This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: ‘A wonderful celebration’
Employment

This afternoon tea is made and served by people with learning disabilities: ‘A wonderful celebration’

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Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic
Rahima Begum

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic

We may have learning disabilities – but we still want the same opportunities as everyone else
Kerry Martin and Emily Burr

We may have learning disabilities – but we still want the same opportunities as everyone else

Learning disability services have faced ‘drastic reduction in funding’ despite saving NHS money
Learning disabilities

Learning disability services have faced ‘drastic reduction in funding’ despite saving NHS money

‘The world needs more kindness’: People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025
Tommy Jessop, Aaron Plummer and Sas Granville

‘The world needs more kindness’: People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025

‘What gave them the right?’: Fury after doctors refused to resuscitate disabled man during pandemic
Disability rights

‘What gave them the right?’: Fury after doctors refused to resuscitate disabled man during pandemic

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show
Education

Special needs children forced out of school by ‘crumbling’ system, figures show

IDLES superfan with Angelman syndrome performs onstage with favourite band
MUSIC

IDLES superfan with Angelman syndrome performs onstage with favourite band

Letters: The politicians who deserve power are the ones speaking on real issues
Letters

Letters: The politicians who deserve power are the ones speaking on real issues

Teachers forced to choose which special needs children get help as funding crisis worsens
Special educational needs

Teachers forced to choose which special needs children get help as funding crisis worsens