Pam Thomas
@pamthomas01.bsky.social
PhD Accessible Environments. MA Disability Studies (sociology) For social justice & inclusive built environment, rights not charity, Europe. Against systemic, societal disabling barriers. Former Liverpool City Labour & co-op councillor & cabinet member.
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👨👦 60% say work experience depends on 'who you know', not 'what you know'. Young people need need better careers advice and structured, fair access to opportunities for all.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
👨👦 60% say work experience depends on 'who you know', not 'what you know'. Young people need need better careers advice and structured, fair access to opportunities for all.
Read more www.ippr.org/articles/tow...
Read more www.ippr.org/articles/tow...
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A shortage of work coaches at jobcentres has led The Department for Work & Pension to reduce the level of support it provides to Universal Credit claimants.
Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...
youtu.be/dW8nTrFgu_I
Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...
youtu.be/dW8nTrFgu_I
Supporting people to work through jobcentres
YouTube video by National Audit Office
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March 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A shortage of work coaches at jobcentres has led The Department for Work & Pension to reduce the level of support it provides to Universal Credit claimants.
Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...
youtu.be/dW8nTrFgu_I
Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp...
youtu.be/dW8nTrFgu_I
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The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.
Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he h…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.
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Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday.
DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street
Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday.
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The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty by 2030, official documents have revealed.
Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show
The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty* by 2030, official documents have …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty by 2030, official documents have revealed.
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💪 The #EmploymentRights Bill passed the Commons last night – delivering a major victory for working people.
❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.
❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.
March 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
💪 The #EmploymentRights Bill passed the Commons last night – delivering a major victory for working people.
❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.
❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.
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DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits
DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to apologise for massively exaggerating the rise in people claiming out-of-work disability benefits, and then tried to cover-up its actions, j…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits
#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits
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Getting very angry with @nihr.bsky.social journals people who now run all submissions through a crazy piece of 'plagiarism' software and ask you to insert a lengthy copyright disclaimer whenever they spot a sentence that is the same as, or similar to, a sentence you have published previously.
March 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Getting very angry with @nihr.bsky.social journals people who now run all submissions through a crazy piece of 'plagiarism' software and ask you to insert a lengthy copyright disclaimer whenever they spot a sentence that is the same as, or similar to, a sentence you have published previously.
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Hi 👋
Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here.
We are keen to connect with:
🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists
📢 disability rights activists
👌advocates of access and inclusion
🪇arts venues
Anyone else in arts & access 👇
Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here.
We are keen to connect with:
🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists
📢 disability rights activists
👌advocates of access and inclusion
🪇arts venues
Anyone else in arts & access 👇
February 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Hi 👋
Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here.
We are keen to connect with:
🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists
📢 disability rights activists
👌advocates of access and inclusion
🪇arts venues
Anyone else in arts & access 👇
Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here.
We are keen to connect with:
🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists
📢 disability rights activists
👌advocates of access and inclusion
🪇arts venues
Anyone else in arts & access 👇
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If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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February 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts
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'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Department for Work and Pensions civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.
DWP blocked researchers from discussing ‘shocking’ data on ESA suicide attempts in ‘unique’ report
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data sh…
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January 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Department for Work and Pensions civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.
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Never again. We will remember them.
Today marks 80 years since Auschwitz was liberated.
We remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, all victims of Nazi persecution, and those who suffered in genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
We remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, all victims of Nazi persecution, and those who suffered in genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Never again. We will remember them.
Around 250,000 disabled children & adults were murdered in Nazi Germany, they were considered a threat to the human gene pool, a drain on society & their lives unworthy of life. It began with 'mercy killing' of children that required approval from medical experts.
hmd.org.uk/learn-about-...
hmd.org.uk/learn-about-...
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Disabled people
The Nazis targeted for persecution anyone that they believed to have mental or physical disabilities. From 1939-1941 the Nazis carried out a programme of ‘euthanasia’, known as the T4 programme (Tierg...
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January 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Around 250,000 disabled children & adults were murdered in Nazi Germany, they were considered a threat to the human gene pool, a drain on society & their lives unworthy of life. It began with 'mercy killing' of children that required approval from medical experts.
hmd.org.uk/learn-about-...
hmd.org.uk/learn-about-...
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Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations from giving evidence in person.
Committee examining assisted suicide bill ‘is skewed’, ‘a stitch-up’… and may have breached UN convention
Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any…
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January 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations from giving evidence in person.
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Hello!
I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security.
Please DM or comment.
You can be anonymous.
I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security.
Please DM or comment.
You can be anonymous.
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Hello!
I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security.
Please DM or comment.
You can be anonymous.
I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security.
Please DM or comment.
You can be anonymous.
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Really helpful information for residents over the Christmas period.
If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page.
www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...
If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page.
www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...
Liverpool Christmas Support Page 2024 - Feeding Liverpool
We have compiled a list of Liverpool-based Christmas Food Support services and resources for the Christmas and New Year period. Community Christmas Meals The below organisations are providing a Christ...
www.feedingliverpool.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Really helpful information for residents over the Christmas period.
If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page.
www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...
If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page.
www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...
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Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and bosses
December 19, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and bosses
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I'm going to guess you won't hear this on the Laura Kuenssberg show – only the numbers arriving.
The Labour government says 13,500 people with no right to be in the UK have been removed since they took office, the most since 2018.
UK Labour Is Removing Illegal Migrants at Fastest Pace in Years
The UK announced new funding to crack down on illegal migration as it deports the largest number of people from the country in years.
www.bloomberg.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:09 AM
I'm going to guess you won't hear this on the Laura Kuenssberg show – only the numbers arriving.
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The scandal of vapes gets worse bit.ly/3ZEGhcV at some point in 2026 the Circular Economy Minister (yes there really is one) will get some powers to make foreign importers pay something towards recycling them. That’s 800million unrecycled vapes from now.
Vapocalypse now: 8m vapes go unrecycled each week
Young people are more likely to bin, litter or flush away used cartridges
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December 16, 2024 at 7:21 AM
The scandal of vapes gets worse bit.ly/3ZEGhcV at some point in 2026 the Circular Economy Minister (yes there really is one) will get some powers to make foreign importers pay something towards recycling them. That’s 800million unrecycled vapes from now.
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I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in
December 16, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in
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“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”
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Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
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December 7, 2024 at 9:34 AM
“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme”
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Not impressed with transpenine today because there isn't a suitable ramp at #haymarket to train manager has to get me on before boarding me he let on two passengers with large amounts of luggage who of course have put it in the wheelchair space
December 3, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Not impressed with transpenine today because there isn't a suitable ramp at #haymarket to train manager has to get me on before boarding me he let on two passengers with large amounts of luggage who of course have put it in the wheelchair space
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On International #DisabilityRights Day, we have a simple request for the @EU_Commission and Commissioner @hadjalahbib:
- Commit to advancing disability rights.
- Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy.
#DisabilityDay #IDPD
Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI
- Commit to advancing disability rights.
- Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy.
#DisabilityDay #IDPD
Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM
On International #DisabilityRights Day, we have a simple request for the @EU_Commission and Commissioner @hadjalahbib:
- Commit to advancing disability rights.
- Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy.
#DisabilityDay #IDPD
Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI
- Commit to advancing disability rights.
- Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy.
#DisabilityDay #IDPD
Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI
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Reaching our full potential in life is important to us all. But Disabled people are often overlooked as leaders due to assumptions about what we can and can’t do. @campaignfdj.bsky.social is led by Disabled people, one of many organisations reminding the world of what’s possible on #IDDP #IDPD
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Reaching our full potential in life is important to us all. But Disabled people are often overlooked as leaders due to assumptions about what we can and can’t do. @campaignfdj.bsky.social is led by Disabled people, one of many organisations reminding the world of what’s possible on #IDDP #IDPD