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Episode 32 w/ Chris Hatton: Getting Our Stat On with Hatton
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Challenging Behaviours is a podcast that aims to challenge the behaviours of society towards disability.
For today's episode we've put our Chris hats on, to have stats chat with Chris Hatton (with an H!) Chris is an academic and a trustee of both Stay Up Late and Dance Syndrome. We talked about the statistics of deaths of learning disabled people both during Covid-19 and in the LeDeR reviews. Chris's twitter is currently dormant but he occasionally posts links to his blog. You can follow him @chrishattoncedr and visit his blog at www.chrishatton.blogspot.com
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