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User-led advice centre set to close its doors after NHS funding blow

By John Pring on 28th March 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

User-led advice centre set to close its doors after NHS funding blow
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A disabled people’s organisation is set to have to close the doors of its advice centre, which has provided vital support with benefit claims to thousands of disabled people, after nearly all its funding was suddenly withdrawn by a local NHS […]

Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat

By John Pring on 13th October 2016 Category: Housing

Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat
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A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs to his second-floor flat by his personal assistant because of his local council’s failure to rehouse him in safe, accessible accommodation. Robert Carver – who is paraplegic – has also been […]

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