big society? disabled people with learning disabilities & civil society

Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities & Civil SocietyImpact Summary Card 12: Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days

d.goodley@sheffield.ac.uk & k.runswick-cole@mmu.ac.uk

Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days

Big Society? Disabled People with Learning Disabilities and Civil Society

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Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days What is #107days:

Connor Sparrowhawk (known as LB on-line) was a young man who drowned alone in a bath in an NHS setting – his death was found to be ‘preventable’;

#107days is a campaign to get #justiceforLB and to improve the life chances of disabled people with learning disabilities;

As part of that campaign, we wrote a blog about violence in the lives of people with learning disabilities.

We said that:

It is right to hold the individuals responsible for LB’s preventable death to account but it is not enough to blame a few individuals;

It we want #justiceforLB and all disabled people, we also need to tackle the attitudes and systems that allow violence against people with learning disabilities to take place;

We need to look close to home, including families and schools, as well as at care settings and hospitals, to understand how this happens;

We need to act now to expose and challenge widespread disabling attitudes and practices in the lives of disabled people with learning disabilities.

Day 46: the Violence of Disablism #107days http://107daysofaction.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/day-46-the-violence-of-disablism-107days//