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Disabled people have undergone a “huge rollback” in their rights and social security support since the pandemic, a disability rights campaigner and adviser has told the Covid inquiry. Despite politicians promising they would be “building back better”, Joanne Sansome told the […]
A catastrophic technology failure has left thousands of disabled people across the country who rely on social care struggling to pay their personal assistants (PAs). The failure has hit people who use direct payments to arrange council-funded care and support in […]
The prime minister has been warned by a senior MP that his decision to delay reform of adult social care in England risks Labour’s plans being “kiboshed” at the next general election. Sir Keir Starmer was appearing in front of the […]
Local authorities in England are now only able to provide the “bare minimum” of services to disabled and older people who need support through the adult social care system, MPs were told yesterday (Wednesday). Three senior local government figures were giving […]
Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive governments over the last 20 years have abandoned its ambitious goals. The 20th anniversary of the […]
Disabled campaigners have reacted with despair and exasperation to the government’s “deeply disappointing” announcement that it is delaying long-term reform of the adult social care system in England. Instead of announcing immediate plans for long-term reform, health and social care secretary […]
The government is set to announce the next stage in developing its 10-year plan for social care within weeks, the health and social care secretary has told MPs. Wes Streeting (pictured) told members of the Commons health and social care committee […]
A local authority’s actions helped drive a disabled woman to attempt to take her own life, after it imposed an “impossible” two-week deadline upon her as part of a discriminatory social care assessment process. Clare*, from Cambridgeshire, who has multiple health […]
The care regulator’s annual assessment of “the state of health and care” in England includes almost no discussion of the quality and safety of adult social care services, analysis of the report has revealed. Large sections of the Care Quality Commission’s […]
Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has refused to say when the new Labour government will address the care charging crisis that is leading disabled people to face unlawful discrimination and inequality on an “unparalleled” scale. Despite being asked several […]