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Campaigners on both sides of a heated discussion about how best to deliver personalised social care services have called for a wider debate on the issue. One group, headed by Professor Peter Beresford – a self-described “service-user activist” and director of […]
Delays in live subtitles appearing on screen often lead to “omissions and misreporting of information”, according to a new report. The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom this week published its first report on the quality of live subtitling, following a consultation which found […]
Users of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) have launched a fresh legal bid to halt its closure, Disability News Service can reveal. Three ILF-users are threatening a second judicial review of the coalition’s decision to close the fund, a government-funded trust […]
The government’s strategy for delivering its personalisation agenda is “undermining” the quality of care and support provided to disabled and older people, leading academics, consultants and campaigners have warned. They have written this week to social services directors and other leaders […]
The government has dismissed calls by a disabled peer to set up a group of experts to monitor the impact of the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) on disabled people. Baroness [Jane] Campbell received cross-party backing for her appeal, […]
Government plans to “refresh” England’s autism strategy will do nothing to address its “fundamental flaws”, according to autistic rights campaigners. The Liberal Democrat care services minister Norman Lamb launched Think Autism, the “refreshed” strategy for adults with autism, at Saracens rugby […]
Thousands of disabled people should now receive regular reviews to ensure that they are not being deprived of their liberty by health or social care professionals, thanks to two keenly-anticipated Supreme Court decisions. The court found unanimously that a 39-year-old disabled […]
Disabled campaigners have vowed to fight on in the battle to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF), despite the government deciding to go ahead with its closure. Mike Penning, the Conservative minister for disabled people, told MPs today (6 March) in […]
Professionals in parts of England still do not understand their duty to ensure that disabled people have the support they need to make “critical” decisions about their health and social care, according to a new government report. The duty to refer […]
Government delays in deciding the future of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) are causing “undue distress” to thousands of disabled people who rely on it to live independently, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People […]