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Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry
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Disabled activists have raised fears that they may not be asked to give evidence in public at a high-profile Commons inquiry into legalising assisted suicide. The health and social care committee began taking oral evidence this week, hearing from four peers […]

Round-up: Community funding, new special schools, Changing Places… and a new forum

By John Pring on 23rd July 2020 Category: Human Rights

Round-up: Community funding, new special schools, Changing Places… and a new forum
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Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed three years of funding that will help move people with learning difficulties and autistic people out of mental health hospitals and into homes in the community. The £62 million (£20 million this […]

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