Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Leonard Cheshire’s bonfire of user empowerment

Governance failures I’ve already noted all is not well at Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD): the Chief Executive and the Head of HR left at no notice. (LCD’s PR team told a Third Sector magazine journalist that Pelham would stay on until replaced, but now LCD refute having said any such thing.) Now the Interim Chief…

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Blood on the carpet at Leonard Cheshire

Leonard Cheshire announced on 11th March that their CEO Clare Pelham was resigning. A spokeswoman for the charity said Pelham, who has no immediate role to move to, would stay in post until her successor was appointed and had no set date for leaving. “Acting” Chief Executive Leonard Cheshire’s website was updated on the afternoon…

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Sam Smiths don’t give a stuff about disabled people

At the Harewood Arms, there is a stone wheelchair ramp in the car park, to get into the bar. I’ve been a lot over the years – most memorably to celebrate my degree. Last time I attempted to go (with a friend I don’t get to see very often) the door at the top of…

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