Author: Doug Paulley

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

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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Trouble brewing at Leonard Cheshire?

Clare Pelham, CEO of Leonard Cheshire, is resigning. She’s resigning without another job to go to. She’s a career politician. She was previously first chief executive of the Judicial Appointments Commission, the body charged with introducing more diversity into the Judiciary, and was under fire in the Select Committee on Constitutional Affairs for the Commission’s…

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