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The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms. A disabled-led network of organisations has written to mental health minister Baroness Merron, […]
Ministers have bowed to pressure from disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and allies to extend the deadline for those with certain access needs to respond to a consultation on the Human Rights Act. There had been anger over the failure of the […]
More than 40 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have signed a letter to the justice secretary to ask why he waited until 12 days before the end of a consultation on the Human Rights Act to publish an “easy read” version. The […]