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Deaths and hospital admissions follow short-notice closure of Leonard Cheshire home

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Housing

Deaths and hospital admissions follow short-notice closure of Leonard Cheshire home
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At least two disabled people have died while others have been admitted to hospital following the short-notice closure of a residential home by a disability charity. Leonard Cheshire faced allegations of “insensitive and abusive” behaviour in May over the way its […]

Concerns over green paper’s ‘chilling’ failure to address accessible housing crisis

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Housing

Concerns over green paper’s ‘chilling’ failure to address accessible housing crisis
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The government has been criticised by disabled campaigners and the equality watchdog after its new social housing green paper failed to include a single mention of the accessible housing crisis. Only three months ago, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]

Council’s disabled facilities grant investment leads to ‘unprecedented’ improvements

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Housing

Council’s disabled facilities grant investment leads to ‘unprecedented’ improvements
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A local authority says it has achieved an “unprecedented” improvement in waiting-times for disabled people seeking grants to make their homes accessible. Ashford Borough Council in Kent decided last October to invest an extra £200,000 capital funding in the disabled facilities […]

Disabled people face ‘hidden crisis’ in accessible housing

By John Pring on 17th May 2018 Category: Housing

Disabled people face ‘hidden crisis’ in accessible housing
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Disabled people have been left “demoralised and frustrated” by the housing system and face a “chronic shortage” of accessible homes, according to a new report by the equality and human rights watchdog. More than 350,000 disabled people in England have unmet […]

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry

By John Pring on 22nd March 2018 Category: Housing

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry
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The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made by a committee of MPs that were aimed at improving disabled people’s access to the built environment. The women and equalities committee concluded in its report last April that disabled people […]

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

By John Pring on 22nd March 2018 Category: Housing

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants
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The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases and entrances of residential properties. The measures were part of Labour’s […]

Council shamed into action after ‘years of neglect and discrimination’

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Housing

Council shamed into action after ‘years of neglect and discrimination’
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A local authority has been shamed into taking action after years of alleged neglect and discrimination left a disabled activist starving, freezing, and his home so full of rubbish that firefighters said it was too dangerous to enter. Mark White has […]

‘Caution’ urged over government’s supported housing U-turn

By John Pring on 2nd November 2017 Category: Housing

‘Caution’ urged over government’s supported housing U-turn
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Long-term supported housing will continue to be funded through the social security system, the government has announced, while it has also scrapped plans to cap housing benefit payments, which caused huge concerns across the sector over the last two years. Former […]

Disabled people face ‘unacceptable barriers’, and government must do more, say MPs

By John Pring on 27th April 2017 Category: Housing

Disabled people face ‘unacceptable barriers’, and government must do more, say MPs
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The barriers disabled people face in navigating the built environment are an “unacceptable” attack on their quality of life and right to equality, according to a committee of MPs. The report on disability and the built environment, by the Commons women […]

Watchdog’s inquiry into accessible housing shortage ‘must also look at affordability’

By John Pring on 15th December 2016 Category: Housing

Watchdog’s inquiry into accessible housing shortage ‘must also look at affordability’
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An inquiry launched by the equality and human rights watchdog into the “chronic lack” of accessible housing has been welcomed by campaigners, but they warned that it must also look at whether such housing is affordable for disabled people. The Equality […]

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