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Covid death stats suggest discrimination impact on people with sensory impairments

By John Pring on 24th November 2022 Category: Human Rights

Covid death stats suggest discrimination impact on people with sensory impairments
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Working-age people with both a hearing and visual impairment in England were nearly 12 times more likely to die due to Covid during the pandemic than people of the same age without such impairments, “shocking” new official figures have shown. The […]

Pandemic exclusion led to confusion and fear, says ground-breaking Welsh report

By John Pring on 8th July 2021 Category: Human Rights

Pandemic exclusion led to confusion and fear, says ground-breaking Welsh report
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The levels of exclusion experienced by disabled people in Wales during the pandemic led many to report confusion, helplessness, abandonment, isolation, fear and frustration, according to a ground-breaking, disabled-led report. The Locked Out report*, commissioned by the Welsh government, details how […]

Scottish government ‘must act over disproportionate deaths’

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Human Rights

Scottish government ‘must act over disproportionate deaths’
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The Scottish government is facing fresh calls to investigate why so many disabled people have died during the pandemic, after new figures showed for the first time that they accounted for nearly three-fifths of all deaths involving COVID-19 in Scotland. The […]

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