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Minister defends taking five months to produce supported living COVID guidance

By John Pring on 4th September 2020 Category: Independent Living

Minister defends taking five months to produce supported living COVID guidance
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A health minister has been asked why her department took five months to produce guidance that aims to protect disabled people in supported living services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Helen Whately, the social care minister, was challenged over why her department […]

Coronavirus: Kendall promises to challenge minister over lack of PA guidance

By John Pring on 16th April 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: Kendall promises to challenge minister over lack of PA guidance
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Labour’s new shadow social care minister has pledged to challenge her opposite number over the government’s continuing failure to publish guidance that would help disabled people protect themselves during the coronavirus crisis. Liz Kendall, who was appointed to the role this […]

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge
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A cabinet minister has admitted there is “no consensus” on how to solve the adult social care funding crisis, even though the prime minister announced he had a “clear plan” for doing so when he took office in October. Robert Jenrick, […]

Labour resists ‘scrap universal credit’ call, as Tory blames ‘fecklessness’ for food bank use

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour resists ‘scrap universal credit’ call, as Tory blames ‘fecklessness’ for food bank use
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Labour has failed in a bid to force the government to publish secret papers that would show the true financial impact of universal credit on benefit claimants. In a debate lasting nearly four hours yesterday (Wednesday), Labour and SNP MPs lined […]

ELECTION 2015: Greens demand IDS apology for ‘misleading’ voters on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 6th May 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: Greens demand IDS apology for ‘misleading’ voters on benefit deaths
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Tory work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is facing calls to apologise after he misled voters about sensitive information on benefit-related deaths that was unearthed by Disability News Service (DNS). Duncan Smith was one of five politicians taking part in […]

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump
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The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they would scrap if they win the election and abolish the Human Rights Act (HRA). The party’s manifesto says a Conservative government would replace the act – introduced by a Labour […]

ELECTION 2015: Charity boss criticised by watchdog over Tory manifesto photo

By John Pring on 17th April 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ELECTION 2015: Charity boss criticised by watchdog over Tory manifesto photo
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The disabled head of a disability charity has been criticised by the charities watchdog after a full-page photograph of her was used – with her permission – in the Conservative party’s election manifesto. Ruth Owen, chief executive of Whizz-Kidz, is pictured […]

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