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Disabled campaigners say they are “horrified” at a council’s lack of transparency after it refused to release documents that would have revealed details of its agreement with a consultancy it is paying to help cut people’s care packages. Bristol City Council […]
A disabled woman is being charged hundreds of pounds a month by her local council for care and support services she does not receive. City of Wolverhampton Council and Select Lifestyles, the company that provides her accommodation, have both been unable […]
Four disabled people’s organisations have written to Bristol’s mayor to call on him to abandon “inhumane and unacceptable” social care policies that are set to breach disabled people’s right to live independently. Disability Rights UK, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, […]
A council has been accused of using underhand tactics to cut millions of pounds from support packages and push disabled people into residential care, despite being forced to withdraw a controversial policy that could have had the same impact. The grassroots […]
A disabled people’s organisation has warned its local council that plans to increase care charges for many residents by nearly £34 a week could have “devastating consequences” and “wreak havoc” on the lives of thousands of service-users. The proposal, which will […]
Disabled campaigners say they are “shocked and dismayed” by the Welsh government’s plans to allow local authorities to increase the maximum weekly amount that disabled people can be charged for their non-residential care by 20 per cent. The government said in […]
New laws that would give the government sweeping powers to carry out financial surveillance on benefit claimants would also pose a serious risk to disabled people who have set up bank accounts to pay for their social care, campaigners warn. Measures […]
Disabled campaigners have secured a significant victory over a local authority that threatened to force people with high support needs into residential care. The grassroots group Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL) had secured pro bono legal advice in its battle to persuade Bristol […]
A council has been told by disabled campaigners that a “discriminatory” draft policy that could force people with high support needs into residential care is “fundamentally flawed” and “rides roughshod” over its obligations under the Care Act. The grassroots group Bristol […]
A new way to hire accessible and adapted vehicles could provide an alternative to the Motability scheme for disabled people who rarely need to use their car. The Accessible Vehicle Club (AVC) is being marketed as the UK’s “first ever accessible […]