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The care watchdog has declined to raise concerns about the state of adult social care services in England, despite releasing a new batch of inspection reports that show nearly half of them failed to meet acceptable standards. In just a week, […]
MPs have been criticised for failing to question the social care minister about the “national scandal” of tens of thousands of disabled people across England who have been left in debt because they cannot pay their care charges. Helen Whately was […]
The Conservative and Labour parties have both refused to reveal their current policies on charging for adult social care, just days before local elections in England. Disability News Service (DNS) approached the four largest parties contesting next week’s elections – the […]
Cross-party MPs have attacked a council that has “locked out” disabled people from its city centre by installing security barriers to guard against terror attacks. Labour and Conservative MPs criticised the discriminatory actions of York City Council, which is run by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]