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3 minute reflection from Kev House at the Art of Brilliance following his recent online Staying Brilliant session for leaders within the Community Led Support Network

Covid 19 and the rights of disabled people. Statement published on https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2020/april/covid-19-and-rights-disabled-people

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How people might manage change, or be supported to manage change. Coronavirus is a new illness – also called Covid-19. A lot of people will catch it over the next few months but nearly everyone will get better.

"At times like these, the resilience and change we create together is needed most by those who feel isolated in our society and will continue to grow and benefit them long after the dust has settled on COVID-19.

Author: Karen James, SENCO and Early Years & Inclusion Professional. Five years on from reforms introduced to better support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the government launched a major review into SEND.

Family carers have told us about the varied ways they support a relative with a learning disability in different housing settings and shared their concerns about what would happen (and does happen to people) without this input.

NDTi’s Associate, Peter Bates, outlines the factors that he believes are contributing to ‘the fog of confusion and lack of positive change' around out of area placements.

Hári Sewell is founder and Director of HS Consultancy and a former executive director of health and social care in the NHS. Hári questions how much is known about the experience of out of area placements of black or other racialised people.

Isaac Samuels, the Deputy Chair of the National Co-production Advisory Group, shares his personal story of an out of area placement.