dr courtney buckler
@courtneybuckler.bsky.social
she/they 🏳️⚧️ ☸️
Head of Policy & Campaigns: @nsunnews.bsky.social
Exec Director: @makespaceco.bsky.social
formerly/unfortunately on the other place as @cbuckler_
Head of Policy & Campaigns: @nsunnews.bsky.social
Exec Director: @makespaceco.bsky.social
formerly/unfortunately on the other place as @cbuckler_
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On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget.
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
NSUN Responds to the Autumn Budget
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget, a yearly statement outlining plans for spending and taxes in the year ahead.
www.nsun.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
On 26th November 2025, the Government released its Autumn Budget.
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
Instead of announcing more large-scale welfare cuts for Disabled people, this budget begins a slower process. It is a death by a thousand cuts.
Read NSUN's response to the Autumn Budget.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
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BREAKING: An NHS Trust has been forced to admit the potential misuse of surveillance technology Oxevision (now “LIO”) in psychiatric inpatient bedrooms at the Lampard Inquiry this week.
NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.
NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.
October 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
BREAKING: An NHS Trust has been forced to admit the potential misuse of surveillance technology Oxevision (now “LIO”) in psychiatric inpatient bedrooms at the Lampard Inquiry this week.
NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.
NSUN is calling on all trusts to suspend use of Oxevision immediately.
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Our Highest Honour:
Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx
##RITBhonours
Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx
##RITBhonours
September 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our Highest Honour:
Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx
##RITBhonours
Lifetime Fellowship of the unknown survivor- to everyone living with mental distress and illness who has lived through another year, we persist. Love Rita xxx
##RITBhonours
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Over the past weeks we have witnessed the Government's increased anti-migration rhetoric and failure to denounce far-right violence.
Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...
Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...
Migration and mental health: why we won’t stop talking about it
We have an inadequate welfare system, overwhelmed mental health services and a broken asylum system for the same reason: political choice.
www.nsun.org.uk
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Over the past weeks we have witnessed the Government's increased anti-migration rhetoric and failure to denounce far-right violence.
Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...
Migration is not a crime, and at NSUN, migrant justice will always be a mental health issue.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/migrati...
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DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP disability advisory panel? Something's up...
www.thecanary.co
September 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
DWP announces disability advisory panel - and it's the hot mess you'd expect it to be
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Being paid just over minimum wage and having to sign a gagging order to be on the DWP's disability advisory panel? Something's up, says @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Yesterday, the Government rushed through the newly titled Universal Credit Bill – enacting their planned cuts to Universal Credit for new claimants from 2026/7. The Bill will now progress to the House of Lords, where it will face reduced scrutiny. We are devastated 🧵(1/4).
July 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Yesterday, the Government rushed through the newly titled Universal Credit Bill – enacting their planned cuts to Universal Credit for new claimants from 2026/7. The Bill will now progress to the House of Lords, where it will face reduced scrutiny. We are devastated 🧵(1/4).
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Yesterday NSUN published an email template for lobbying your MP around welfare cuts.
Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...
Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...
Lobby your MP about the welfare cuts: Template email
Access a template to email your MP about the impact of welfare cuts for Disabled people.
www.nsun.org.uk
June 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Yesterday NSUN published an email template for lobbying your MP around welfare cuts.
Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...
Contribute to the campaign against the Government's proposed welfare cuts by using our guide and template letter to contact your MP about the cuts today.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/lobby-y...
Got something to say about the Government's proposals to slash welfare support for Disabled people? Me too! Contribute to @nsunnews.bsky.social's consultation response here: forms.gle/wYMtnpWtrhbZ...
NSUN's Pathways to Work Green Paper consultation response
The purpose of this form is to gather views from those with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma on recently announced changes Disability benefits.
Responses to these questions ...
docs.google.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Got something to say about the Government's proposals to slash welfare support for Disabled people? Me too! Contribute to @nsunnews.bsky.social's consultation response here: forms.gle/wYMtnpWtrhbZ...
So pleased to see this piece out in the world and am touched to have been interviewed as part of it. It tenderly outlines the entanglements of police and policing in mental health services. Written by @rebeccamarie.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
"They’re just waiting for her to die": How austerity turns mental health patients into prisoners
As mental health crises spiral, many like Lucy find themselves caught in a broken system where prison is seen as the only place of safety
national.thelead.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So pleased to see this piece out in the world and am touched to have been interviewed as part of it. It tenderly outlines the entanglements of police and policing in mental health services. Written by @rebeccamarie.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
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Join us and award-winning disabled journalist, activist and author Rachel Charlton-Dailey on 22 May to discuss the Government’s plans to reshape the welfare system, and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...
www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...
Social security & Mental Health (Network Meeting May 2025)
We’ll be discussing social security and mental health, including the government’s plans to reshape the welfare system and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distr...
www.nsun.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Join us and award-winning disabled journalist, activist and author Rachel Charlton-Dailey on 22 May to discuss the Government’s plans to reshape the welfare system, and how this could impact people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...
www.nsun.org.uk/news/social-...
My reflections on the joy and disappointment of giving "evidence" in parliament, what it means to have become an "expert", and how this big day out confirmed everything I already knew about knowledge, power, & co-production 👇
"I was fuelled by the responsibility I feel to the many, many hundreds of Mad and Disabled people I have the honour to work and organise alongside."
@courtneybuckler.bsky.social on giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...
@courtneybuckler.bsky.social on giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...
On giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry
NSUN's Senior Policy & Campaigns Manager, Courtney Buckler reflects on the experience of giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s Inquiry into Community Mental Health Services.
www.nsun.org.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My reflections on the joy and disappointment of giving "evidence" in parliament, what it means to have become an "expert", and how this big day out confirmed everything I already knew about knowledge, power, & co-production 👇
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Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people.
Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).
Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).
April 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people.
Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).
Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).
New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people.
NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
April 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New explainer from me, via NSUN - on what the welfare proposals are, what they might mean for those living with mental ill-health, and what you can do about them 👇
"We as the mental health sector have a responsibility to call out this logic, rejecting the ways transness is constructed as a mental health problem and resisting psychological therapies being used as a new form of conversion therapy."
Read our call to action, signed by @mindcharity.bsky.social @rethinkcharity.bsky.social @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social @mhfaengland.bsky.social @studentmindsorg.bsky.social @centreformh.bsky.social & @mhealthuk.bsky.social.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/why-the... (2/2)
www.nsun.org.uk/news/why-the... (2/2)
Why the mental health sector should be doing more to protect trans rights
A call to action from NSUN, co-signed by: Centre for Mental Health, The McPin Foundation, Mental Health First Aid England®, Rethink Mental Illness, Mental Health UK, Student Minds, and Mind.
www.nsun.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"We as the mental health sector have a responsibility to call out this logic, rejecting the ways transness is constructed as a mental health problem and resisting psychological therapies being used as a new form of conversion therapy."
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Trans rights are being attacked in the name of mental healthcare.
On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).
On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).
March 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Trans rights are being attacked in the name of mental healthcare.
On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).
On #TransDayofVisibility and beyond, NSUN is calling on the mental health sector to defend trans rights (1/2).
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🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts.
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
March 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts.
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system.
#StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
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A map of upcoming DPAC actions on Wednesday 26th March!
#WelfareNotWarfare
Stop the press 📢
Updated local actions map for the National Day of Action on Wednesday 26th March 2025
Stop the press 📢
Updated local actions map for the National Day of Action on Wednesday 26th March 2025
March 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A map of upcoming DPAC actions on Wednesday 26th March!
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NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by the DWP’s proposals on welfare reform.
These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)
These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by the DWP’s proposals on welfare reform.
These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)
These changes are not in effect, there is no immediate change to people’s benefits. (1/5)
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‼️ Just want to clarify that the mask requirement of course does not include those who are exempt❤️
Hey folks! We initially started Crips Against Cuts over on Instagram but have been restricted.
We are a Crip-led grassroots group organising a day of action on March 22nd to fight against proposed welfare cuts! Several demos are happening and here is the info for our Bristol one!
Solidarity always💗
We are a Crip-led grassroots group organising a day of action on March 22nd to fight against proposed welfare cuts! Several demos are happening and here is the info for our Bristol one!
Solidarity always💗
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
‼️ Just want to clarify that the mask requirement of course does not include those who are exempt❤️
Welfare reform proposals today have come with a new consultation, open until 30th June. However, accessible versions of documents are missing. 1/5
March 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Welfare reform proposals today have come with a new consultation, open until 30th June. However, accessible versions of documents are missing. 1/5
Solidarity, love, and care to all who are (also) troubled by today's announcements re: changes to welfare for Disabled people. A reminder that nothing is in effect, and will likely not be for some time.
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Solidarity, love, and care to all who are (also) troubled by today's announcements re: changes to welfare for Disabled people. A reminder that nothing is in effect, and will likely not be for some time.
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📢 We’ve united with Scope against cuts to disability benefits.
Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
The cost of cuts to disability benefits: Our open letter to the Chancellor | Disability charity Scope UK
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed ...
www.scope.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📢 We’ve united with Scope against cuts to disability benefits.
Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
Together, we’ve published an open letter to the Chancellor urging the Government to safeguard them.
Read the full letter on Scope’s website ⬇️
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...
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NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by recent news regarding reforms to the welfare system.
We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).
We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
NSUN stands in solidarity with all who are affected by recent news regarding reforms to the welfare system.
We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).
We are ready to oppose these changes, and are preparing for the launch of the full Green Paper, expected later this month (1/2).
Looking forward to this one in particular. Horrified by surveillance: touched by the power, ingenuity, and perseverance of Mad folk. 💞
Online launch of Spring issue of Asylum mag.
It's gonna be another cracker..👍🏼🧨🎆
Hear from guest editors & contributors @stopoxevision.bsky.social
Supported by @nsunnews.bsky.social
@asylummagazine.bsky.social
Register here for joining link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
It's gonna be another cracker..👍🏼🧨🎆
Hear from guest editors & contributors @stopoxevision.bsky.social
Supported by @nsunnews.bsky.social
@asylummagazine.bsky.social
Register here for joining link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
February 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Looking forward to this one in particular. Horrified by surveillance: touched by the power, ingenuity, and perseverance of Mad folk. 💞