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Disabled peers plan to ‘amend, amend, amend, amend, amend’ after assisted dying bill reaches Lords

By John Pring on 26th June 2025 Category: Politics

Disabled peers plan to ‘amend, amend, amend, amend, amend’ after assisted dying bill reaches Lords
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The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a bill passed by MPs so “tight” that only a very few people will be able to take advantage […]

‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Human Rights

‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths
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A “sinister” government analysis of the impact of a bill to legalise assisted suicide suggests it could eventually save public bodies more than £100 million a year in health and social care costs, benefits and pensions. The figures – which the […]

Disabled people ‘plead for our lives’ in front of MPs and peers, as assisted suicide bill ends key stage

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people ‘plead for our lives’ in front of MPs and peers, as assisted suicide bill ends key stage
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Disabled people with progressive and terminal conditions have come to parliament to “plead for our lives” in front of MPs and peers, as a bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales finishes a key stage in the Commons. They […]

Disabled people ‘have been betrayed’, 20 years on from groundbreaking Life Chances report

By John Pring on 16th January 2025 Category: Independent Living

Disabled people ‘have been betrayed’, 20 years on from groundbreaking Life Chances report
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Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive governments over the last 20 years have abandoned its ambitious goals. The 20th anniversary of the […]

Maggie Davis: Tributes to pioneer, rebel and advocate

By John Pring on 21st March 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Maggie Davis: Tributes to pioneer, rebel and advocate
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Some of the country’s leading disabled activists have paid tribute to the “immense” contribution of Maggie Davis, an outspoken “rebel”, a powerful advocate and a pioneer of the independent living movement, who died last week at the age of 81. She […]

Disabled peer returns to the Lords to fight for victims of infected blood scandal

By John Pring on 29th February 2024 Category: Politics

Disabled peer returns to the Lords to fight for victims of infected blood scandal
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A disabled peer who lost her first husband through the contaminated blood scandal has called on the government to end its repeated delays in establishing a compensation scheme for those affected. Baroness [Jane] Campbell was speaking for the first time in […]

Government admits to ‘limited’ understanding of home-based care abuse

By John Pring on 15th June 2023 Category: Crime

Government admits to ‘limited’ understanding of home-based care abuse
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The government has admitted it has a “limited” understanding of the abuse of disabled people at the hands of their carers and care workers in their own homes. The government review calls for a “stronger” response to protect disabled and older […]

Assisted suicide legalisation ‘would risk lives’ after decade of cuts, MPs are told

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Assisted suicide legalisation ‘would risk lives’ after decade of cuts, MPs are told
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Anti-cuts activists have warned a Commons inquiry that more than a decade of cuts to social care has stripped disabled people of their independence and would leave them at “significant risk” if parliament decides to legalise assisted suicide. The warning came […]

Public health bosses ‘not aware’ of any government blackout plans

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Independent Living

Public health bosses ‘not aware’ of any government blackout plans
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The government has again failed to show how it will protect disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes if there are power blackouts this winter, despite serious concerns being raised by public health experts. The […]

Alarm grows over government’s ‘appalling’ blackout planning failure

By John Pring on 3rd November 2022 Category: Independent Living

Alarm grows over government’s ‘appalling’ blackout planning failure
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There is growing alarm over the government’s “appalling” and “deeply concerning” failure to show that disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes will be protected if there are power blackouts this winter. It is now […]

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