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Second Labour-led inquiry in two months fails to demand end to care charges

By John Pring on 26th January 2023 Category: Independent Living

Second Labour-led inquiry in two months fails to demand end to care charges
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A second inquiry in two months has issued a call for wholesale reform of the social care system without delivering a clear and urgent demand for an end to care charges. Reimagining Care was commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and […]

SEND system is ‘creaking and ripe for reform’, says Ofsted

By John Pring on 15th December 2022 Category: Education

SEND system is ‘creaking and ripe for reform’, says Ofsted
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The special educational needs and disability (SEND) system is “creaking and ripe for long-promised reform”, according to the annual report of the education watchdog Ofsted. Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of education, children’s services and skills, warned in her annual report […]

Hunt’s Autumn Statement ‘crumbs’ will ‘not be enough to prevent harm and deaths’

By John Pring on 24th November 2022 Category: Independent Living

Hunt’s Autumn Statement ‘crumbs’ will ‘not be enough to prevent harm and deaths’
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An Autumn Statement that has provided “distracting crumbs” of funding will not be enough to address the impact of 12 years of austerity that has stripped away support from disabled people, campaigners and activists warned this week. The response from disabled […]

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 […]

Government ‘started planning accessible lying-in-state queue more than 10 years ago’

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government ‘started planning accessible lying-in-state queue more than 10 years ago’
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The government began planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state more than a decade before she died, it claimed this week, despite the eventual arrangements deteriorating into “a shambles”. The Department […]

Climate change conference must stop excluding disabled people, says new UK coalition

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Climate change conference must stop excluding disabled people, says new UK coalition
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Disabled activists have called on the UN’s COP27 conference to stop excluding them from discussions and solutions around climate change. They say it is vital that disabled people are included in COP27 – currently being held in Egypt – and future […]

Concern over ministers’ ‘failure to plan’ for blackout impact on disabled people

By John Pring on 13th October 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern over ministers’ ‘failure to plan’ for blackout impact on disabled people
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The government is facing questions over its apparent failure to prepare for the impact of possible power blackouts this winter on disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical and independent living equipment in their homes. National Grid ESO, which […]

Government ‘ignored advice from disability organisations’ on lying-in-state

By John Pring on 29th September 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government ‘ignored advice from disability organisations’ on lying-in-state
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The government ignored crucial advice from disability organisations when it was planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people who wanted to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall, it emerged this week. The Department for Digital, […]

Government ‘may have breached Equality Act duties’ over Lying-in-State queue

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government ‘may have breached Equality Act duties’ over Lying-in-State queue
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have criticised the measures taken to ensure that the Queen’s Lying-in-State is accessible to disabled people as “inadequate” and “disappointing”. The government has arranged an “accessible queueing scheme” for those unable to stand in a queue for […]

‘Truly shocking’ figures expose disabled people’s ‘precarious’ financial situation

By John Pring on 11th August 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Truly shocking’ figures expose disabled people’s ‘precarious’ financial situation
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“Truly shocking” official statistics have exposed the deepening impact of the cost-of-living crisis on disabled people. The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show how disabled people in Britain are being hit even harder by rising prices than non-disabled […]

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