AutisticMumTo3Aug 30, 2023

I’m insulted regularly. My crime? Using a wheelchair | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/disabled-prisoner-four-years-wife-carer-affair-b2401260.html

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I’m insulted regularly. My crime? Using a wheelchair

The story of the quadriplegic kept prisoner by his wife and her lover is appalling – but the abuse disabled people like me suffer is all too commonplace, writes James Moore

The Independent
AutisticMumTo3Jun 6, 2023

Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges | Social care | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/06/ministers-seek-volunteer-social-care-army-to-speed-up-hospital-discharges

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Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges

Exclusive: Volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people’s homes among other tasks

The Guardian