One of the architects of the Conservative austerity years has denied to the Covid public inquiry that the spending cuts left a “depleted” health and social care system and rising inequality by the time the pandemic hit in 2020. When asked […]
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Disabled protesters’ anger at Conservatives over spending cuts
Austerity cuts to social care and health caused 57,000 deaths, research suggests
Government’s 2016 welfare reforms ‘had devastating impact on disabled people’
Funding provides opportunity to build evidence of national DPO crisis
New research will seek crucial evidence of the “serious crisis” facing disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across England. Inclusion London has secured £80,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund to research the state of England’s “chronically under-resourced, fragmented and precarious” DPO sector. […]