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Disabled man in fourth week of hunger strike over ‘inhuman’ Home Office facility

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Human Rights

A man with significant long-term health conditions is in the fourth week of a hunger strike over “inhuman” conditions at a former Essex care home that is being used to house more than 50 disabled people seeking asylum. The Home Office […]

Call for action on care charges, after woman’s suicide was linked to council’s invoices

By John Pring on 14th April 2022 Category: Independent Living

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Disabled activists are calling for local authorities to take urgent action, following an ombudsman ruling that a disabled woman took her own life after being wrongly sent a string of invoices demanding payment of care charges she did not owe. The […]

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