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Local authorities in England are now only able to provide the “bare minimum” of services to disabled and older people who need support through the adult social care system, MPs were told yesterday (Wednesday). Three senior local government figures were giving […]
Disabled campaigners say they are “horrified” at a council’s lack of transparency after it refused to release documents that would have revealed details of its agreement with a consultancy it is paying to help cut people’s care packages. Bristol City Council […]
Four disabled people’s organisations have written to Bristol’s mayor to call on him to abandon “inhumane and unacceptable” social care policies that are set to breach disabled people’s right to live independently. Disability Rights UK, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, […]
A council has been accused of using underhand tactics to cut millions of pounds from support packages and push disabled people into residential care, despite being forced to withdraw a controversial policy that could have had the same impact. The grassroots […]
Disabled campaigners have secured a significant victory over a local authority that threatened to force people with high support needs into residential care. The grassroots group Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL) had secured pro bono legal advice in its battle to persuade Bristol […]
A council has been told by disabled campaigners that a “discriminatory” draft policy that could force people with high support needs into residential care is “fundamentally flawed” and “rides roughshod” over its obligations under the Care Act. The grassroots group Bristol […]
Disabled activists have said they are “very frightened” by council plans that could force people who rely on social care into residential homes against their wishes, and which they believe breach equality and human rights laws. Bristol City Council this week […]
Campaigners have called on local authorities to turn their backs on policies that force disabled people into residential homes against their will and therefore “seriously threaten the right to independent living”. The calls came after it emerged that Bristol City Council […]
A local authority’s draft care policy could have “catastrophic” implications for disabled people and see them forced into residential homes against their will, disabled activists have warned. Bristol City Council (BCC) has released a draft version of a new Fair and […]
Council, police and other agencies across Bristol have again been found to have repeatedly failed disabled people, in the third such damning report to hit the city in just four years. This week’s report by Sir Stephen Bubb examined multi-agency failings […]