Sun.Jan 02, 2022

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Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions

The Guardian

Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’ The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will increase pressure on the government to end the practice of keeping people with severe learning disabilities in “modern-day asylums”.

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Practicing Calm

Abuse Survivor

I am in a new part of healing now. A lot of very difficult work has paid off and I am in a much calmer place in my life. After 7 years of practice I can truly see the benefits of my meditation practice. I use meditation in conjunction with other skills to help myself get through the day with my CPTSD/PTSD symptoms. I’m not only getting through the day but I have way more calm in my life than I have ever had, both in my mind and outside of my head too.

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Foster care as a shakedown scheme

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The notices from family policing agencies demanding that parents help pay the costs of foster care in order to get their children back don't really look like this (which comes courtesy of ransomizer.com) but when you tear a child from a parent's arms and demand money from that parent to get the child back, the only proper term for the payment is "ransom.

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