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Frustration and anger over social care white paper’s funding failure

By John Pring on 2nd December 2021 Category: Independent Living

Frustration and anger over social care white paper’s funding failure
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The government’s long-awaited adult social care white paper has appalled campaigners by failing to address the social care funding crisis. The white paper, People at the Heart of Care, is more than 100 pages long, but it says nothing new about […]

Government failure to prioritise social care led to countless deaths, MPs’ report suggests

By John Pring on 14th October 2021 Category: Independent Living

Government failure to prioritise social care led to countless deaths, MPs’ report suggests
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The government and the NHS both failed to pay enough attention to the risks faced by the social care sector at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report by MPs has concluded. But the joint report by the Commons science […]

Disabled people urged to make their voices heard in care staff consultation

By John Pring on 14th October 2021 Category: Independent Living

Disabled people urged to make their voices heard in care staff consultation
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Disabled people are being urged to take part in a government consultation so they can draw attention to the growing staffing crisis in social care. The consultation on the impact of Brexit and the ending of freedom of movement on staffing […]

Labour conference: Kendall refuses four times to say if she backs free social care

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Independent Living

Labour conference: Kendall refuses four times to say if she backs free social care
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Labour’s shadow social care minister has refused four times to say if she supports the idea of free social care. Liz Kendall had been asked by Disability News Service (DNS) whether she was in favour of free social care, and what […]

Labour conference: Burnham calls on his party to back free social care

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Independent Living

Labour conference: Burnham calls on his party to back free social care
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Former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham has called on his party to back a policy of providing free social care that he says would ensure independent living for disabled people. Burnham, who has been the mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, […]

Labour conference: MP accuses government of ‘gas-lighting’ social care during pandemic

By John Pring on 30th September 2021 Category: Human Rights

Labour conference: MP accuses government of ‘gas-lighting’ social care during pandemic
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A Labour MP who heard weekly reports on the “harrowing” impact of the pandemic on service-users and staff in social care through the early months of the crisis has accused the government of “gas-lighting” the sector by denying those experiences. Helen […]

Johnson’s social care ‘fix’ is ‘disappointing… regressive… and insulting’

By John Pring on 9th September 2021 Category: Independent Living

Johnson’s social care ‘fix’ is ‘disappointing… regressive… and insulting’
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Disabled campaigners have delivered a withering response to the government’s long-awaited plan to “fix social care” in England. The proposals were announced on Tuesday by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, who claimed they would “fix social care” and the NHS treatment […]

Call for national action on council care charging

By John Pring on 20th May 2021 Category: Independent Living

Call for national action on council care charging
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Activists are calling on disabled people’s organisations and campaigners around the country to ensure that their local authorities closely examine their care charging policies, following a vital court ruling. They are concerned at the growing variations across the country in how […]

Johnson ignores working-age care… again, and suggests further delays to reform

By John Pring on 16th January 2020 Category: Independent Living

Johnson ignores working-age care… again, and suggests further delays to reform
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The prime minister has again ignored the needs of working-age disabled people when asked about his plans for social care funding reform, and has suggested that those reforms may take as long as five years to implement. Boris Johnson (pictured) was […]

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’
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A permanent solution to the social care funding crisis may finally be within reach, with growing calls for proposals that would include free social care, according to a former adviser to the Tory health and social care secretary. Richard Sloggett, who […]

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