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