Thread by @rightsforresid2

We have been asked, do you remember when you joined Twitter? We should never have had to join or even start up, but 2 years later we are still going. Thank you to all who have/do support us. Thread 🧵1/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents #MyTwitterAnniversary

This is how it began and the reason behind @rightsforresid2 2/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents rightsforresidents.co.uk/about/

Our first video was launched, a poem aimed at @MattHancock, the video showing what some of our loved ones were going through at the time 3/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents
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We released a single (thanks to George Gallagher) the video again highlighting what was happening to our loved ones, sadly many no longer with us, but we will always remember them - this was apart of 4/14 #stilllockedaway #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

We have created many headlines in the papers - thank you to the many journalists who we have worked with to keep the stories in the news and the issue in the forefront of peoples minds 5/14 .#GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

As well as the headlines, there have been so many of our members willing to speak out on not only their loved one's behalf but all of us - thank you - a brief summary from our website covering 2 years! 6/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents rightsforresidents.co.uk/news-campaign-…

We have an @YouTube channel featuring many interviews including those of our amazing ambassador @RuthieHenshall who has done so much for us and the wider campaign #GloriasLaw named after her lovely mother who sadly died 7/14 #rightsforresidents
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We have given substantial evidence to @HumanRightsCtte and we have delivered a petition - not once, but twice. The first time, in accordance with law at the time, six of us met in Parliament Square 8/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

Then in September 2021 (the day @GillianKeegan became the Minister for Care) a #seaofblue turned up at #DowningStreet an incredible day, a petition with over 270,000 signatures was delivered, a day we will never forget 9/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

We have been proud to join forces with other #FiveNation Campaigners @ChrScotland @JulieannNally @CareChampions2 @JohnCampaign 10/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

More recently - our call to enshrine the right to maintain contact - along with @relresuk and @JohnCampaign over 30 organisations showed their support 11/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents

We were invited by @DanCardenMP and @tracey_crouch to speak at an event in parliament so along with @relresuk @JohnCampaign we told our stories to MPs and journalists 12/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents
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Now we wait for parliament to return, we have over 60 MPs who have signed a cross party letter supporting us, with many more front bench MPs unable to sign but giving support, we must make sure this can never happen again 13/14 #CareSupporter #GloriasLaw #rightforresidents

This is just a small part of the last 2 years, but still, today, we hear of time slots, appointments, restrictions, our loved ones in care have been failed by many, we will not rest til they are safe 14/14 #GloriasLaw #rightsforresidents