The high court is set to hear a disabled woman’s claim that the government breached equality and human rights laws by failing to provide her with accessible shielding information during the pandemic. Sarah Leadbetter, from Narborough, Leicestershire, who is blind and […]
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Activists’ anger after watchdog supports ministers’ ‘abhorrent’ care home COVID policy
Disabled activists have attacked the care watchdog for supporting an “abhorrent” government policy that will again see older and disabled people who have been infected with coronavirus being discharged from hospitals into residential homes. Early in the pandemic, hospital patients were discharged […]