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Digital inclusion ‘will not mean society can abandon work on physical barriers’

By John Pring on 17th October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive

Digital inclusion ‘will not mean society can abandon work on physical barriers’
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Continuing progress in making the digital world more inclusive for disabled people should not lead to lower investment in addressing physical and attitudinal barriers, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation (DPO). Rhian Davies, chief executive of Disability Wales (DW), the […]

Next generation text relay ‘should lead to quicker, smoother calls’

By John Pring on 10th October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive

Next generation text relay ‘should lead to quicker, smoother calls’
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Deaf people and those with speech and hearing impairments have welcomed the launch of a new service that should make their telephone conversations faster and more fluent. The new service has been developed and launched by BT – which is the […]

Liberal Democrat party conference: Members reject social care spending plea

By John Pring on 10th October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive, Politics

Liberal Democrat party conference: Members reject social care spending plea
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Liberal Democrats have rejected calls for their party to pledge rises in social care spending that match those on the NHS, if it wins the next election. During a debate at this week’s Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow on the “core […]

Assist UK to end 40 years of advice and support as funding runs out

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Independent Living, News Archive

Assist UK to end 40 years of advice and support as funding runs out
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A national user-led organisation has become the latest disability charity to be forced to close because of a government failure to provide funding for day-to-day running costs. The closure of Assist UK, which leads the national network of disabled living centres, […]

Conservative party conference: Ministers accused of avoiding social care ‘hot potato’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive, Politics

Conservative party conference: Ministers accused of avoiding social care ‘hot potato’
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A disabled Conservative campaigner who is battling to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF) has accused her own party of avoiding the “hot potato” issue of social care. ILF-user Mary Laver travelled from her home on the edge of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to […]

Conservative party conference: NHS ‘resisting modernisation’ of wheelchair services

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive, Politics

Conservative party conference: NHS ‘resisting modernisation’ of wheelchair services
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A disabled charity boss has described the “uphill battle” she has faced in trying to persuade the NHS to improve its wheelchair services for disabled children. Ruth Owen, chief executive of Whizz-Kidz, told her charity’s fringe meeting at this week’s Conservative […]

Conservative party conference: MP accuses equipment providers of ‘profiteering’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive, Politics

Conservative party conference: MP accuses equipment providers of ‘profiteering’
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A Tory MP has accused independent living equipment providers of “profiteering” by charging “eye-watering” prices, and described his frustration at failing to persuade Asda – a previous employer – to launch a range of cut-price disability aids. Philip Davies told a […]

Call for more councils to debate ILF, as Bristol backs closure rethink

By John Pring on 19th September 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive

Call for more councils to debate ILF, as Bristol backs closure rethink
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Disabled people have been urged to press their own local authorities to debate coalition plans to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF), after a council voted to demand a rethink, following a campaign led by disabled people. Councillors in Bristol voted […]

Network of holiday cottages ‘will take the worry out of travel’

By John Pring on 5th September 2014 Category: Independent Living

Network of holiday cottages ‘will take the worry out of travel’
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A disabled artist is launching the UK’s first network of holiday cottages, all of which will be wheelchair-accessible and identical in every detail. The first Flat Spaces bungalow should be in place later this year beside a steam railway in the […]

Research could see disabled people become ‘3-D pioneers’

By John Pring on 22nd August 2014 Category: Independent Living, News Archive

Research could see disabled people become ‘3-D pioneers’
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New research funding could see disabled people become pioneers in a “new industrial revolution”, according to a user-led organisation. The funding has been secured by Disability Rights UK (DR UK), the University of Salford and the University of Dundee, for a […]

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