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Councils refuse to use suicide prevention plans to highlight ‘shocking’ ESA figures

By John Pring on 11th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Councils refuse to use suicide prevention plans to highlight ‘shocking’ ESA figures
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Local authorities in England are refusing to use their own suicide prevention plans to highlight “shocking” figures that show claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. The figures, published in September […]

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk
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The Department of Health (DH) has refused to say why it failed to warn NHS bodies and other local services that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. DH published the […]

Equality watchdog seeks legal advice on possible right to independent living

By John Pring on 30th November 2017 Category: Independent Living

Equality watchdog seeks legal advice on possible right to independent living
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The equality watchdog has asked a barrister to examine whether there needs to be a legal right to independent living for disabled people, because of concerns that their rights to choice and control over their lives is being “eroded”. The Equality […]

Research linking care cuts to 120,000 deaths ‘is fresh evidence austerity kills’

By John Pring on 16th November 2017 Category: Independent Living

Research linking care cuts to 120,000 deaths ‘is fresh evidence austerity kills’
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“Indisputable” new research has linked government cuts in adult social care and health spending to nearly 120,000 “excess” deaths in England since 2010. The research, published just before midnight last night (Wednesday) by the online journal BMJ Open, concludes that people […]

Queen’s speech: Government will consult on social care funding, but silence on needs of working-age disabled people… again

By John Pring on 22nd June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Queen’s speech: Government will consult on social care funding, but silence on needs of working-age disabled people… again
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The government has confirmed in the Queen’s speech that it plans to consult on its proposals to address the funding crisis affecting older people’s social care, but has again failed to make any mention of the needs of working-age disabled people. […]

Department of Health ignores NHS continuing healthcare human rights warnings

By John Pring on 19th January 2017 Category: Independent Living

Department of Health ignores NHS continuing healthcare human rights warnings
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Campaigners have warned more than 40 NHS primary care organisations across England that policies which could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into institutions are a breach of disabled people’s human rights. Despite the warning, the Department of Health last […]

Children begin to receive prostheses that will help them run, swim… or play the violin

By John Pring on 12th January 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Children begin to receive prostheses that will help them run, swim… or play the violin
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Hundreds of disabled children in England are starting to benefit from a new fund that will provide them with the specialist prosthetic limbs they need to take part in sports and other activities that were previously inaccessible to them. The Department […]

Government ‘leaves self-advocates with #NoVoice’ after scrapping forum’s funding

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government ‘leaves self-advocates with #NoVoice’ after scrapping forum’s funding
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A national forum set up 15 years ago to involve people with learning difficulties in developing government policy is set to lose its Department of Health (DH) funding. Inclusion North, the disability organisation that is paid by DH to run the […]

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Independent Living

Care watchdog ‘fails to follow up on coroners’ death warnings’
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The care watchdog is failing to order urgent inspections of care homes, despite coroners warning that urgent action must be taken to prevent further deaths of the disabled and older people who live there, an NHS whistleblower has found. Coroners publish […]

Downgrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’

By John Pring on 28th July 2016 Category: Politics

Downgrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’
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The Department of Health has been heavily criticised for downgrading the seniority of the minister in charge of adult social care. The last four ministers responsible for social care – Labour’s Phil Hope, Liberal Democrats Paul Burstow and Norman Lamb, and […]

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