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Disabled activists hope to build a new social movement that will campaign for a “bold and brilliant” national independent living service that would be available free of charge to anyone in England who needs it. They used an online meeting to […]
The government and its regulator are refusing to say how many care homes are set to be approved to receive hospital patients who have tested positive for coronavirus. A new government policy – described as “abhorrent” by disabled activists – will […]
A disabled campaigner is on hunger strike in response to the failure of his local authority and the NHS to provide him with the support package he needs to “just live as a human being”. Jimmy Telesford said his experience in […]
The government’s updated guidance for those who are “clinically extremely vulnerable” (CEV) to COVID-19 has been criticised for its lack of detail and clarity, and its failure to announce new support for those who are particularly at risk from the virus. […]
A “considerable proportion” of people in Scotland who receive social care support at home have had that support cut or removed completely during the pandemic, according to a new report by the country’s human rights watchdog. This week’s report by the […]
Disabled people who have been shielding at home say they are having to rely on peer support and their own judgement to protect themselves from the pandemic, after despairing at the lack of clear government guidance. Many of those who have […]
Labour activists are pushing their party for a stronger commitment to plans drawn up by disabled people that would solve the social care crisis by setting up a co-produced National Independent Living Service (NILS). A motion based on the NILS plans […]
Campaigners have asked a local authority why it has taken the “inexcusable” step of increasing care charges for disabled people in the middle of a pandemic. Greenwich council was warned last year that planned increases to the contributions disabled service-users have […]
The care regulator has been accused of prioritising the financial interests of home care agencies over the safety of disabled people, after refusing to release information that would show which of them have reported deaths of service-users linked to coronavirus. The […]
Two disabled peers have called on the health and social care secretary to scrap powers given to local authorities that allow them to suspend some of their social care duties during the coronavirus pandemic. Crossbench peers Baroness [Jane] Campbell and Baroness […]