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All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>The Incredibly Talented Lucy review – a sparkling story, with an enraging twist ending</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/05/the-incredibly-talented-lucy-review-a-sparkling-story-with-an-enraging-twist-ending</link> <description><p>This moving documentary is as much about The Piano winner’s teacher, Daniel, as it is about her remarkable rise. While their relationship is wonderful to watch, the difficulties they face prove a rotten problem in society</p><p></p><p>The makers of Channel 4’s reality/talent show The Piano probably thought they had a hit on their hands when they coined the format, but the moment they knew they had cracked it must have been when they found Lucy, a 13-year-old girl from Halifax, West Yorkshire. Blind, neurodivergent and given to throwing her head from side to side during performances in the manner of Stevie Wonder, Lucy was exactly what The Piano – which invited amateurs from around the country to play railway concourse pianos, then arranged for the best ones to do a gig at the Royal Festival Hall – was looking for.</p><p>Inevitably, Lucy now stars in a spin-off documentary where we learn more about her and see what happened next. We duly watch Lucy at home and at school, delight in hearing her play a lot more piano – Debussy, Duke Ellington, Bach – and are introduced to her wonderful, loving mother and the teachers and classroom assistants who encourage her every day in matters besides music. But The Incredibly Talented Lucy is not primarily a film about Lucy. It’s about Daniel.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/05/the-incredibly-talented-lucy-review-a-sparkling-story-with-an-enraging-twist-ending">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/music">Music</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 22:20:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/05/the-incredibly-talented-lucy-review-a-sparkling-story-with-an-enraging-twist-ending</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0439af786781e11d1ae4b456b8d983360317551a/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eef380ccdc6e4a54e18b10f46017f74e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Ansett/Channel 4 / Richard Ansett</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0439af786781e11d1ae4b456b8d983360317551a/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3d210f5ab23c5f4496ccc5ba344a17df"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Richard Ansett/Channel 4 / Richard Ansett</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jack Seale</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T22:20:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Carolann Jackson obituary</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/05/carolann-jackson-obituary</link> <description><p>My friend Carolann Jackson, who has died aged 80, was a campaigner and advocate on behalf of people with Asperger syndrome.</p><p>For the first part of her adult life she worked in the music business, managing bands. But her focus changed after the birth of her daughter, Nita. Early on, Carolann noticed that her daughter appeared to behave differently to other children of her age.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/05/carolann-jackson-obituary">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/neurodiversity">Neurodiversity</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/essex">Essex</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 15:47:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/05/carolann-jackson-obituary</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d2eb2554ad95776bb1e5ddf7c3071704959faf2/0_138_628_377/master/628.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=449f59d77990b4b49e288bcf5e55d497"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: from family/none</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4d2eb2554ad95776bb1e5ddf7c3071704959faf2/0_138_628_377/master/628.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=914d440eebf3706827b0d598e67ff62c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: from family/none</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T15:47:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Why are Australian schools failing children with disabilities? - podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2024/may/06/why-are-australian-schools-failing-children-with-disabilities-full-story-podcast</link> <description><p>The number of disabled students recognised as needing greater learning support has grown to almost 1 million nationally. But these children are increasingly being suspended from schools, including some as young as five years old. Investigative reporter <strong>Sarah Martin</strong> explains to <strong>Jane Lee</strong> how Australia’s education system has reached crisis point</p><p><strong>Read more:</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2024/may/06/why-are-australian-schools-failing-children-with-disabilities-full-story-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 15:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2024/may/06/why-are-australian-schools-failing-children-with-disabilities-full-story-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ab3d6bd851ef1359628ab3533376f00806b7f41/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1dae704a84ef8ce75e12aa588aaa464b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sarah Rhodes/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ab3d6bd851ef1359628ab3533376f00806b7f41/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8ba72d8bff473c5b9e03e92db952eff2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sarah Rhodes/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Jane Lee with Sarah Martin, produced by Karishma Luthria, sound design and mixing by Camilla Hannan, executive producer Miles Martignoni</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T15:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Manchester United to tighten up checks to avoid misuse of disabled fans’ tickets</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/04/manchester-united-tighten-checks-avoid-misuse-disabled-fans-tickets</link> <description><ul><li>Concerns aired that tickets were falling into the wrong hands</li><li>Club to work with United’s Disabled Supporters’ Association</li></ul><p>Manchester United are to tighten up identification spot-checks to ensure tickets for disabled fans do not fall into the wrong hands.</p><p>The club have stressed that their No 1 priority for disabled supporters is to ensure only the appropriate people enter designated areas after a report in the Daily Mail claimed some fans were guilty of falsely gaining entry into disabled sections to watch matches, particularly away from home.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/04/manchester-united-tighten-checks-avoid-misuse-disabled-fans-tickets">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-united">Manchester United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 14:20:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/04/manchester-united-tighten-checks-avoid-misuse-disabled-fans-tickets</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcc6c2797449495903b571c30fffb28fbf0e44de/0_350_5255_3153/master/5255.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e9e8bd21e96e91c624595a99992b2af8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcc6c2797449495903b571c30fffb28fbf0e44de/0_350_5255_3153/master/5255.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6587b8b496dc812c55b2660b26c4f5f1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>PA Media</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-04T14:20:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Here are six ways to make education more inclusive | Catherine Smith</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/australia-disability-education-schools-support-inclusion</link> <description><p>This is not an easy fix, but our schools should be safe places where students grow and learn together</p><p>Australia has a global reputation for high quality education. But inclusion for children and young people with disability in all that education can offer is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/why-the-guardian-is-investigating-the-deep-failings-in-australias-school-system">something we aren’t getting right</a>.</p><p>This is not an easy fix – not all schools are resourced or welcoming to students with disability. Families of students with disability often <a href="https://disability.unimelb.edu.au/home/projects/Impact-of-remote-learning">find themselves exhausted</a> by how much they must advocate to have their child understood and have their needs met. This can lead to feeling as if mainstream schools are too hard (and sometimes too scary) and is part of the reason why, despite knowing that inclusive education benefits all children, with or without disability, we are still building new special schools.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/australia-disability-education-schools-support-inclusion">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/national-disability-insurance-scheme">National disability insurance scheme</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/australia-disability-education-schools-support-inclusion</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f6cc37f2365c09be5fe7f718e9bf9607649943d2/0_151_8659_5196/master/8659.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=340f9b7cc09f0ce5cea79bb131e432c5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: FatCamera/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f6cc37f2365c09be5fe7f718e9bf9607649943d2/0_151_8659_5196/master/8659.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=78967f8fb2a125ba09f4e9a531593a0e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: FatCamera/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Catherine Smith</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-04T00:00:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>To the parents of school-aged children with disabilities: it's not your fault | Anonymous</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/australian-schools-education-system-children-with-disability-support-ndis-review</link> <description><p>My son spent his high school years isolated in the library or watching YouTube videos. Am I angry? Absolutely. Do I blame his teachers? I don’t</p><ul><li>Analysis: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/why-the-guardian-is-investigating-the-deep-failings-in-australias-school-system">Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system</a></li></ul><p>If you are a parent of a school-aged child with a disability, you already know that the system is broken. You likely feel helpless, judged, and as though you are failing your child. I want to assure you that you’re not, but the education system is failing them.</p><p>My 17-year-old son Alex* spends his days at home. He wants to get a job, but is going to need a lot of help to do that, and while we wait for months on end for a review of his NDIS funding, he can do little more than wait. He should be at school, but by the end of year 10 it was clear that school was doing more damage than good.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/australian-schools-education-system-children-with-disability-support-ndis-review">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 02:57:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/australian-schools-education-system-children-with-disability-support-ndis-review</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/399e2b19f0eec407e2619e26dbe7d93ecc2d21a3/468_0_3850_2312/master/3850.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7c7c1f25254481ca832182e940cd597f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/399e2b19f0eec407e2619e26dbe7d93ecc2d21a3/468_0_3850_2312/master/3850.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1b513aa4f66c18a4a076f291f135b33e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-03T02:57:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Funding for Australian school students with disabilities ‘woefully inadequate’, principals say</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/03/australian-school-student-disability-funding-survey-aeu</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Schools have reallocated as much as $1bn from other areas to support children with disabilities in past year, survey finds</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/03/gendered-violence-missing-surfers-callum-and-jake-robinson-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Principals and teachers say funding to support students with disabilities is “woefully inadequate”, with schools diverting resources from other areas of their budgets to meet their needs.</p><p>A new national survey of 15,000 principals and teachers reports that just 11% of principals feel they have sufficient resources to support the educational needs of students with disabilities.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/03/australian-school-student-disability-funding-survey-aeu">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/03/australian-school-student-disability-funding-survey-aeu</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9406ab149b1b65961d573c7a175eef4778cf5492/0_156_4670_2804/master/4670.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=643d53956a6c7c2fb88ba16c5492f47e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9406ab149b1b65961d573c7a175eef4778cf5492/0_156_4670_2804/master/4670.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2ebc3133a0a8cd07992bb8377eb4c2b7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sarah Martin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-02T15:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Six-year-old student restrained in infant high chair at NSW school, family claims</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/02/six-year-old-student-restrained-in-infant-high-chair-at-nsw-school-family-claims</link> <description><p>The boy, who has autism and Down syndrome, was photographed in the restraint for a social media post, his guardian says</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/why-the-guardian-is-investigating-the-deep-failings-in-australias-school-system">Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/01/australia-schools-students-with-disabilities-disproportionately-suspended">Students as young as five with disabilities disproportionately suspended from Australia’s schools</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>A six-year-old boy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/how-the-rise-of-autism-and-adhd-fractured-australias-schools">with autism</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/downs-syndrome">Down syndrome</a> was strapped into an infant’s high chair at a New South Wales primary school regularly over an eight-month period, his family allege, with the case now the subject of a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.</p><p>Neville Williams’ aunt and guardian, Karla Bedford, said she first learned that the six-year-old was being physically restrained at Tingha public school in northern NSW after the school posted a photo of him in the chair on social media.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/02/six-year-old-student-restrained-in-infant-high-chair-at-nsw-school-family-claims">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/downs-syndrome">Down's syndrome</category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 15:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/02/six-year-old-student-restrained-in-infant-high-chair-at-nsw-school-family-claims</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dca3cb277f00bfe5cb14f0ec630ef89f122b92ef/0_316_4743_2846/master/4743.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e8e4eb7ef2078208eee055ab8c39d84f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Simon Scott Photo/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dca3cb277f00bfe5cb14f0ec630ef89f122b92ef/0_316_4743_2846/master/4743.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e7798489691e82035b7e6e323666da9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Simon Scott Photo/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sarah Martin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-01T15:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath | Adrian Chiles</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/how-do-you-describe-the-view-to-someone-who-cant-see-i-couldnt-even-do-justice-to-a-canal-towpath</link> <description><p>A day with some blind and partially sighted walkers has shown me how much I barely notice – and how hard it is to find the right words</p><p>How many shades of green are there? Whatever the answer may be, I soon ran out of words to describe them. I was walking north along the Grand Union canal, trying and failing to adequately describe what I could see, to a friend who couldn’t. This was <a href="https://blinddaveheeley.co.uk/profile/">Dave Heeley</a>, ultra-runner, who in 2008 became the first blind person to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Today we were walking rather than running – which, with me guiding him, was just as well.</p><p>I had guided a blind adventurer once before when I took part in the television series Pilgrimage. One of my fellow pilgrims was the remarkable <a href="https://www.amarlatif.com/">Amar Latif</a>. We were high up on the side of a deep, lush valley in eastern Serbia. I was focused on the trickiness of the path itself, but Amar kept asking me to describe the vista. I looked down that valley at the mountains in the distance and simply didn’t know how or where to start. I had a bash, as there was plainly plenty of material to work with, but didn’t feel I had done justice to the richness of that scene.</p><p>Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/how-do-you-describe-the-view-to-someone-who-cant-see-i-couldnt-even-do-justice-to-a-canal-towpath">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/health-and-wellbeing">Health & wellbeing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/blindness">Blindness and visual impairment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/walking">Walking</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/charities">Charities</category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:52:10 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/how-do-you-describe-the-view-to-someone-who-cant-see-i-couldnt-even-do-justice-to-a-canal-towpath</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bdc96804fb7e7c41d41f1c55ecc91945a49c00d1/66_149_1710_1026/master/1710.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0320068718f448bcbc26960f992becf3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Handout</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bdc96804fb7e7c41d41f1c55ecc91945a49c00d1/66_149_1710_1026/master/1710.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=131f18a03f2a38795a53df4fcb21684e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Handout</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Adrian Chiles</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-01T14:52:10Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Take it from a psychologist: Rishi Sunak's callous crusade on welfare will have disastrous consequences | Jay Watts</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rishi-sunak-welfare-support-depression-anxiety</link> <description><p>Targeting people who need support for depression and anxiety will only make these growing problems worse</p><ul><li>Jay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and senior lecturer working in London</li></ul><p>When does crude electioneering become a threat to public health? Rishi Sunak’s and Mel Stride’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/people-with-depression-or-anxiety-could-lose-sickness-benefits-pip?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other">relentless attack on disabled people</a>, with a specific targeting of mental health claimants, will have damaging and potentially deadly consequences. Those of us working in acute psychiatric wards and community services can attest to the severe impact their suggestion of stopping disability benefits would have, and the pain caused by the callous manner in which they have delegitimised mental anguish.</p><p>Sunak has accused the benefits system of “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/29/mentally-ill-people-being-used-as-political-football-campaigners-say">medicalising the everyday challenges and anxieties of life</a>”. Stride, the secretary of state for work and pensions, has labelled depression and anxiety as conditions potentially unworthy of welfare. He proposes vouchers, one-off grants and improved access to treatment and support as alternatives to cash benefits. This approach not only complicates the process with additional bureaucratic hurdles, but also insinuates that long-term needs can be addressed with temporary solutions, which is not feasible.</p><p>Jay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and senior lecturer working in London</p><p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>.</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rishi-sunak-welfare-support-depression-anxiety">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/statebenefits">State benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/rishi-sunak-welfare-support-depression-anxiety</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/894e1575c489f4c76be7357a22966aa6dbbefab3/0_151_5181_3109/master/5181.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=72369b5d67936ac9953af6bc42a0cac3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/894e1575c489f4c76be7357a22966aa6dbbefab3/0_151_5181_3109/master/5181.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c183e79cae4e58ceac32d025fed63b6c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jay Watts</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-01T12:00:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Laughing Boy review – Connor Sparrowhawk’s story told with love and fury</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/may/01/laughing-boy-review-jermyn-street-theatre-connor-sparrowhawk</link> <description><p><strong>Jermyn Street theatre, London<br></strong>Sara Ryan’s book about justice for her son, who died in an NHS unit aged 18, has been turned into a play with campaigning passion</p><p>In a church down the road from this theatre you can see a quilt, a loving tribute to Connor Sparrowhawk, who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/11/connor-sparrowhawk-justice-laughing-boy-death-campaign">drowned in a bath in an NHS unit in 2013</a> aged 18. Each square was made by someone touched by Connor’s death and his mother’s campaign to uncover what happened.</p><p>Sara Ryan’s memoir Justice for Laughing Boy has been adapted by writer-director Stephen Unwin. The show itself is a bit of a patchwork quilt – heartfelt, colourful, bitty – held together by campaigning zeal.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/may/01/laughing-boy-review-jermyn-street-theatre-connor-sparrowhawk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatre">Theatre</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stage">Stage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/janie-dee">Janie Dee</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/jermyn-street-theatre">Jermyn Street Theatre</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 07:53:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/may/01/laughing-boy-review-jermyn-street-theatre-connor-sparrowhawk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c3f4d31d16ba921daa5c0db3f4966a0ee5bb93c3/0_112_4204_2522/master/4204.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6e7ccee2c0b8b8dbb6b90afd4803b744"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c3f4d31d16ba921daa5c0db3f4966a0ee5bb93c3/0_112_4204_2522/master/4204.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=174b1380d166e1147d42e91ef330cd61"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>David Jays</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-01T07:53:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Teaching assistants are the backbone of a crumbling education system | Letters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/30/teaching-assistants-are-the-backbone-of-a-crumbling-education-system</link> <description><p><strong>Jenny Hartland</strong> says special needs support is being handed over to staff with no experience, while <strong>Susan Buckley</strong> says teaching assistants are being saddled with extra work for no extra pay. Plus letters from <strong>Dr Jeff Penfold </strong>and<strong> Toby Wood</strong></p><p>I am saddened but unsurprised by your report on the (mis)use of teaching assistants in schools (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/26/teaching-assistants-deployed-to-routinely-cover-lessons-in-england-and-wales">Teaching assistants routinely cover lessons in England and Wales, survey finds, 26 April</a>). Back in 2005, I was a special needs teacher employed centrally by the local education authority, and worked in mainstream primary schools on a one-to-one basis with children with statements of special educational need. Around this time, funding for this service was being run down and transferred to individual schools. On two occasions, I was told by a headteacher that they would no longer be using our service – with all its resources and expertise – and would I please explain to a teaching assistant what I did.</p><p>The first time, to my shame, I complied. The second time I refused. Thirty-five years as a primary teacher – half of that time in special needs, with all the in-service training that accompanied the role – was not going to be reduced to a half-hour chat with an untrained assistant who was to take over my job, at a much reduced salary. What an insult to all concerned.<br><strong>Jenny Hartland</strong><br><em>York</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/30/teaching-assistants-are-the-backbone-of-a-crumbling-education-system">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/teacher-shortages">Teacher shortages</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/teaching">Teaching</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/specialeducationneeds">Special educational needs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/ofsted">Ofsted</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:27:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/30/teaching-assistants-are-the-backbone-of-a-crumbling-education-system</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f963db088810ef16cc72c341dc2d6ab94c7fa349/0_270_7417_4450/master/7417.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bad21cd0a7461d4b720d0ad3a96b9375"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: 10’000 Hours/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f963db088810ef16cc72c341dc2d6ab94c7fa349/0_270_7417_4450/master/7417.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=046f669bf8c0f204021ada65a4abb348"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: 10’000 Hours/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T16:27:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shardlake star Arthur Hughes on playing CJ Sansom’s disabled Tudor sleuth</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/30/shardlake-star-arthur-hughes-cj-sansoms-disabled-tudor-sleuth</link> <description><p>He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him – and explains why this latest character is like the Lone Ranger</p><p>Arthur Hughes wants to go on adventures. “When I was little,” he says, “I loved films. I loved Jurassic Park. I loved Back to the Future. I loved things I probably wasn’t supposed to watch, like Predator. And then of course I loved all the Disney classics. To go to a world that isn’t your own is so exciting. I wanted to tell stories like that.”</p><p>It was this desire that saw him first take to the stage in school plays, and then to eschew university in favour of drama school – although his parents persuaded him to apply to both, just in case. “There was nothing else I wanted to do,” he says. The gamble paid off as he has landed some huge roles – including being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/feb/08/theres-a-truth-to-it-rsc-casts-disabled-actor-as-richard-iii">the first disabled actor to play Richard III</a> at the RSC, and co-starring in the BBC drama Then Barbara Met Alan, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/11/then-barbara-met-alan-lets-storm-parliament-the-punks-who-risked-their-lives-to-fix-ableist-britain">the first primetime drama about the disability rights movement</a>. To hear him tell it, his whole career has been one big thrill.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/30/shardlake-star-arthur-hughes-cj-sansoms-disabled-tudor-sleuth">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/historical-drama">Historical drama (TV)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/cj-sansom">CJ Sansom</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatre">Theatre</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/rsc">Royal Shakespeare Company</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stage">Stage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/drama">Drama</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:33:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/30/shardlake-star-arthur-hughes-cj-sansoms-disabled-tudor-sleuth</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79bee17ef56f9bf50081880fad31eb4f7196bb9f/0_75_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4cc9f9a1c6cfa237a3cac9edf9bec101"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Martin Mlaka/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79bee17ef56f9bf50081880fad31eb4f7196bb9f/0_75_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5792549d1f9ebe5c6a5de5e959df472c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Martin Mlaka/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lucy Webster</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T15:33:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Guide Dogs UK blames cost of living crisis as it plans 160 redundancies</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/guide-dogs-uk-blames-cost-of-living-crisis-as-it-plans-160-redundancies</link> <description><p>Largest trainer of dogs in country is trying to prevent an estimated £20m funding gap opening up by 2026.</p><p>Guide Dogs UK, the largest trainer of dogs in the country, is to make about 160 people redundant – around 9% of its workforce – to prevent an estimated £20m funding gap opening up by 2026.</p><p>The charity blamed Covid and the cost of living crisis: veterinary bills have increased by almost 20% and pet food bills by 12% since 2023, with further increases expected.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/guide-dogs-uk-blames-cost-of-living-crisis-as-it-plans-160-redundancies">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/charities">Charities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/voluntarysector">Voluntary sector</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/animals">Animals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:23:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/guide-dogs-uk-blames-cost-of-living-crisis-as-it-plans-160-redundancies</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2670529c90138805bee82fd70e30ff6a484426fb/965_718_3291_1975/master/3291.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1e2f947c16af521612d29329e1b5c62c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2670529c90138805bee82fd70e30ff6a484426fb/965_718_3291_1975/master/3291.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=af6e445fcd5ca73dc57ad5183dd7c448"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Amelia Hill</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T15:23:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Students as young as five with disabilities disproportionately suspended from Australia’s schools</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/01/australia-schools-students-with-disabilities-disproportionately-suspended</link> <description><p>Guardian Australia data analysis shows suspensions are increasing in most states. Students with disabilities are overrepresented</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/how-the-rise-of-autism-and-adhd-fractured-australias-schools">How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured Australia’s schools</a></li><li>Analysis: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/why-the-guardian-is-investigating-the-deep-failings-in-australias-school-system">Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system</a></li></ul><p>Thousands of students with a disability, including those as young as five, are receiving repeated suspensions from Australian schools amid calls from advocates for an overhaul of the education system.</p><p>A Guardian Australia analysis of school suspension data shows the number of students being suspended from schools is rising in most states, including among primary school aged students.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/01/australia-schools-students-with-disabilities-disproportionately-suspended">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/autism">Autism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/south-australia">South Australia</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/may/01/australia-schools-students-with-disabilities-disproportionately-suspended</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0fa79942c8bc650803111a4e9155b951b65c1881/162_312_2257_1355/master/2257.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=84f4f395e821e83e50bef676b607b6a1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0fa79942c8bc650803111a4e9155b951b65c1881/162_312_2257_1355/master/2257.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2709f30ad0faecb168b42fd99a2c8693"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sarah Martin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T15:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>So UK ministers want to fob off disabled people with vouchers? It’s like government by Groupon | Frances Ryan</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/ministers-disabled-people-vouchers-government-groupon</link> <description><p>What ministers herald as key reform is in fact unworkable. The plans would be laughable if they weren’t so harmful</p><p>There is a scene in The Simpsons in which the villainous Mr Burns enlists a team of monkeys to reproduce a Charles Dickens novel on the cheap. Hunched over a row of typewriters, the simians cannot get the job done without a range of bumbling typos.</p><p>I thought of this as I watched Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, on Monday set out so-called cost-saving changes to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/people-with-depression-or-anxiety-could-lose-sickness-benefits-pip">flagship disability benefit</a>, personal independence payment (Pip), in what he described as “probably the most fundamental reforms in a generation”.</p><p>Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/ministers-disabled-people-vouchers-government-groupon">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/statebenefits">State benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:56:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/ministers-disabled-people-vouchers-government-groupon</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/75f0768cc199695b05a4a326463f51b7c954de49/0_200_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=37630951074b3a9bba28273e75a0e255"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Benjamin John/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/75f0768cc199695b05a4a326463f51b7c954de49/0_200_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=87205b074686cfdc8c12e4d9c92ed90e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Benjamin John/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Frances Ryan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T13:56:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How to get fair funding for disabled students: start by removing some hurdles | Fiona Katauskas</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/30/how-to-get-fair-funding-for-disabled-students-start-by-removing-some-hurdles</link> <description><p>The system is rigged </p><ul><li><strong>See more of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-katauskas">Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here</a></strong></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/30/how-to-get-fair-funding-for-disabled-students-start-by-removing-some-hurdles">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:14:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/30/how-to-get-fair-funding-for-disabled-students-start-by-removing-some-hurdles</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bc9f488b7d1f2ccf87c82e1dd796456cb5a097d0/4_0_2492_1495/master/2492.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=39a53fc10dc663027ed3359c74e0be23"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bc9f488b7d1f2ccf87c82e1dd796456cb5a097d0/4_0_2492_1495/master/2492.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=89b591faa25575e89cb0e3e4b38094f5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Fiona Katauskas</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T03:14:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Mentally ill people being used as ‘political football’, campaigners say</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/29/mentally-ill-people-being-used-as-political-football-campaigners-say</link> <description><p>Clinicians say crackdown on people eligible for Pip payments does not address UK’s long-term sickness problem</p><p>Mentally ill, sick and disabled people are being used as a “political football” to make the government seem tough rather than addressing the causes of the UK’s growing long-term sickness problem, campaigners have warned, as ministers unveiled tentative proposals to cut disability benefits.</p><p>Potentially thousands of people claiming personal independence payment (Pip) could lose the benefit – currently worth between £29 and £184 a week – under changes designed to tighten eligibility and, where possible, replace monthly cash payments with one-off vouchers or access to specialist support.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/29/mentally-ill-people-being-used-as-political-football-campaigners-say">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/welfare">Welfare</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/depression">Depression</category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:35:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/29/mentally-ill-people-being-used-as-political-football-campaigners-say</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03c477f45e7cc38bb7166f1a6c30af598ec112b7/0_192_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e652fd4f6f7b4d5d08df7fed83d654e5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Antonio Guillem Fernández/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03c477f45e7cc38bb7166f1a6c30af598ec112b7/0_192_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6025a806ab28406913e19f05472de569"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Antonio Guillem Fernández/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Patrick Butler and Kiran Stacey</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T18:35:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Humza Yousaf quits as Scotland’s first minister – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-scotland-first-minister-latest-news-updates-politics-live</link> <description><p>Scotland’s first minister resigns after failing to muster enough votes to survive a no confidence vote this week</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-steps-down-as-scottish-first-minister-snp">Humza Yousaf steps down as Scotland’s first minister</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/who-running-replace-humza-yousaf-snp-leader-scottish-national-party">Who is in the running to replace Humza Yousaf as SNP leader?</a></li></ul><p><strong>Humza Yousaf</strong> is holding a press conference at noon, Sky News and the BBC are reporting.</p><p><strong>Mandy Rhodes</strong>, editor of the Holyrood magazine, says she was due to interview Humza Yousaf this afternoon, but he’s cancelled.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-scotland-first-minister-latest-news-updates-politics-live">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/humza-yousaf">Humza Yousaf</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/snp">Scottish National party (SNP)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/scotland">Scottish politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category 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width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/661f2302b59a4065c02b2904c7cd6c055a6cf528/0_0_1966_1180/master/1966.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c77a55475deeb037c78e1c5da2731e83"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/661f2302b59a4065c02b2904c7cd6c055a6cf528/0_0_1966_1180/master/1966.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fb348d01c04543e15addad00a6779d3b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Andrew Sparrow</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T17:32:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Disabled boy attempted suicide after being suspended for touching teacher’s face, mother claims</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/30/disabled-boy-attempted-suicide-after-being-suspended-for-touching-teachers-face-mother-claims</link> <description><p>The then 16-year-old was ‘an absolute mental wreck’ after the incident, his mother says</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/how-the-rise-of-autism-and-adhd-fractured-australias-schools">How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured Australia’s schools</a></li><li>Analysis: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/29/why-the-guardian-is-investigating-the-deep-failings-in-australias-school-system">Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>A 16-year-old disabled boy who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/the-classroom-divide">was suspended from school</a> for touching a support worker attempted suicide after being left a “mental wreck” by the incident, his mother alleges.</p><p>Nadine Moore says her son, Liam, received the four-day suspension after he touched a student support worker on the face to turn her head towards him when frustrated in class. According to Moore, the school labelled the incident as assault.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/30/disabled-boy-attempted-suicide-after-being-suspended-for-touching-teachers-face-mother-claims">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-education">Australian education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:00:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/30/disabled-boy-attempted-suicide-after-being-suspended-for-touching-teachers-face-mother-claims</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03ad2e17d2ae3cb35620bc54e71f3eaa174dadd1/130_0_3817_2290/master/3817.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9eaca19022ccca6dc1eadaccc20de548"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03ad2e17d2ae3cb35620bc54e71f3eaa174dadd1/130_0_3817_2290/master/3817.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94480396c98aa6ddcc066fae300f363a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sarah Martin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T15:00:18Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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