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Care Act easements

Care Act easements set to be scrapped, but SEN measures will stay

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Education

Care Act easements set to be scrapped, but SEN measures will stay
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The government is to abandon measures that ran “a coach and horses” through the right to social care during the pandemic, but similar restrictions imposed on disabled young people’s right to education are set to remain. The measures were all part […]

Government ignores calls to scrap COVID care restrictions

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Human Rights

Government ignores calls to scrap COVID care restrictions
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The government has ignored repeated calls from disabled people’s organisations and allies to scrap measures that limit the rights of disabled adults and children to social care and education support during the pandemic crisis. In the first parliamentary review of temporary […]

Disabled peers call on government to scrap Care Act coronavirus powers

By John Pring on 17th September 2020 Category: Independent Living

Disabled peers call on government to scrap Care Act coronavirus powers
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Two disabled peers have called on the health and social care secretary to scrap powers given to local authorities that allow them to suspend some of their social care duties during the coronavirus pandemic. Crossbench peers Baroness [Jane] Campbell and Baroness […]

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