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Praise for ‘bold’ and ‘progressive’ council as it scraps care charges

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Praise for ‘bold’ and ‘progressive’ council as it scraps care charges
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Disabled people’s organisations have praised the “bold” and “progressive” actions of a local authority after it promised to become just the second council in England to abolish all charges for care and support for disabled people in their own homes. They […]

Labour-linked inquiry set to rule out scrapping care charges

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Labour-linked inquiry set to rule out scrapping care charges
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An inquiry that will have significant influence on Labour’s policy on independent living at the next general election is set to rule out scrapping care charges, according to a document leaked to Disability News Service. The document, a summary of a […]

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’
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Campaigners have called on local authorities to turn their backs on policies that force disabled people into residential homes against their will and therefore “seriously threaten the right to independent living”. The calls came after it emerged that Bristol City Council […]

System for challenging councils’ care decisions ‘is confusing, slow and stressful’, says EHRC

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Independent Living

System for challenging councils’ care decisions ‘is confusing, slow and stressful’, says EHRC
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The process of challenging the adult social care decisions made by local authorities is confusing, slow and stressful and is failing the disabled people who rely on it, an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found. The […]

Fears over ‘catastrophic’ policy that could force disabled people into care homes

By John Pring on 23rd February 2023 Category: Independent Living

Fears over ‘catastrophic’ policy that could force disabled people into care homes
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A local authority’s draft care policy could have “catastrophic” implications for disabled people and see them forced into residential homes against their will, disabled activists have warned. Bristol City Council (BCC) has released a draft version of a new Fair and […]

Ofgem struggles to justify Equality Act failure, as meter scandal looms

By John Pring on 9th February 2023 Category: Independent Living

Ofgem struggles to justify Equality Act failure, as meter scandal looms
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The energy regulator has struggled to explain how it can prevent disabled people being forced onto prepayment meters when it claims to have no powers to ensure power companies comply with the Equality Act. Ofgem said last week that it was […]

Quarter of a million petition Tesco over inaccessible tills

By John Pring on 2nd February 2023 Category: Independent Living

Quarter of a million petition Tesco over inaccessible tills
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Nearly a quarter of a million people have signed a disabled campaigner’s petition that calls for supermarket giant Tesco to stop introducing self-service, card-only tills in its stores. Pat McCarthy (pictured) says her local supermarket in Osterley, west London, is becoming […]

Second Labour-led inquiry in two months fails to demand end to care charges

By John Pring on 26th January 2023 Category: Independent Living

Second Labour-led inquiry in two months fails to demand end to care charges
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A second inquiry in two months has issued a call for wholesale reform of the social care system without delivering a clear and urgent demand for an end to care charges. Reimagining Care was commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and […]

Council leaves man ‘to rot’ after refusing to allow for spending on cannabis meds

By John Pring on 19th January 2023 Category: Independent Living

Council leaves man ‘to rot’ after refusing to allow for spending on cannabis meds
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A disabled man has been left without the care and support he needs for more than six months because his council is refusing to accept that the cannabis-based medicine he has to pay for privately is a legitimate disability-related expense. Chris […]

Lords committee ignores charging in high-profile social care report

By John Pring on 8th December 2022 Category: Independent Living

Lords committee ignores charging in high-profile social care report
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A cross-party committee of peers has defended its decision to ignore the crucial issue of care charges in a major “spotlight” report on adult social care in England. The report by the Lords adult social care committee focuses heavily on the needs […]

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