Chaminda Jayanetti

Just dropping back here to say that I've launched a substack/newsletter covering housing, welfare, health and care services, education, poverty and inequality - and the politics around them it's free for the time being at least - sign up here! chamindajayanetti.substack.com

If you're angry about conflating PIP with work consider how *scared* LCWRA claimants are of the plan to merge their award with PIP LCWRA *is* about work capability but merging with PIP eradicates that acknowledgment, acceptance & protection OPPOSE THIS PLAN BY THURS 👀 ALT text

@KShabby16334956 Thanks - have DM'd you

@cjayanetti i got my fit note in before april. and i turned 50 this year. Not that i've been referred for an assessment yet, mind you. I keep being told "just wait" - for what mate? I've had a 92 day fit note once and just got another one today. it's supposed to happen on day 29... ???

I'm doing a story on cuts to the Universal Credit disability payments - I'm looking to speak to anyone who started claiming means-tested disability benefit (LCWRA, either in ESA or UC) for the first time when they were in their 50s or 60s My DMs are open, grateful for any RTs

@robmcd85 An online publication called The Lead national.thelead.uk

@cjayanetti Which outlet is it with Chaminda?

My first post looks at how the Home Office has worsened the housing crisis facing newly accepted refugees: chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/the-home-off…

Just dropping back here to say that I've launched a substack/newsletter covering housing, welfare, health and care services, education, poverty and inequality - and the politics around them it's free for the time being at least - sign up here! chamindajayanetti.substack.com

"More and more families are being forced to make impossible choices..." 161,979 more private tenants face rent shortfalls of £hundreds or even £thousands a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts. bigissue.com/news/housing/r…

A data investigation by @TheHouseMag has revealed that those with the greatest needs are being forced to wait years for social housing, leaving families in a miserable limbo. @cjayanetti reports politicshome.com/news/article/w…

23 years of care. A child with highly complex needs. A package that should be 24/7 skilled support. Instead: untrained staff, no continuity, no safety. This is what system failure looks like in real life. Thread 🧵

Hi.. as from now I am no longer posting on X/Twitter. You can find me on Blue Sky, LinkedIn and Substack. I hope you can join me.

@john_ritzema once again shocked to find twitter fascists who loudly bleat about patriotism until the moment patriotism would actually be required, at which point they inevitably transform into quislings.

In a sad milestone, Sir Patrick Duffy, who has died age 105, was also the last surviving person who served in the UK Armed Forces during the Second World War (he was in the Fleet Air Arm) and later went on to be an MP

Sir Patrick Duffy, the longest lived person in British history with a verified birth date to have been an MP, has died age 105: irishpost.com/news/sir-patri… He was Labour MP for Colne Valley 1963-66 and Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-92 and a Defence Minister 1976-79

@RachelCDailey "how the hell do these abuse scandals happen in the care sector...?" ...oh. oh that's how.

This Times “speculation” had better be wrong—It would actively cause harm to children—there isn’t the expertise or infrastructure needed for this cruel plan. If it’s accurate, we will campaign against it vigorously. Which parent or school would back it? archive.is/KFcWB

@NataliePage as if Bella Ramsey gives a shit about a shop that barely even exists anymore

@NataliePage this is such an obviously made-up "story". not taken out of context - completely 100% fake.

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings. #DWP disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdog-dismi…