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Election 2019: Greens set to outdo other parties on independent living

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: Greens set to outdo other parties on independent living
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The Greens have become the first major party to pledge to introduce a solution to England’s social care crisis that has been devised by the disabled people’s movement, if it wins power at next month’s general election. The party says in […]

Election 2019: Labour fails to set accessibility targets for ‘housing revolution’

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Housing

Election 2019: Labour fails to set accessibility targets for ‘housing revolution’
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Labour is refusing to promise that all the 150,000 council and social homes it would build every year would meet basic accessibility standards, despite the government facing legal action over its own failure to act on the accessible housing crisis. Labour […]

Election 2019: New calls for legal right to independent living, but silence from parties

By John Pring on 14th November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: New calls for legal right to independent living, but silence from parties
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Disabled people’s organisations have repeated their calls for political parties to promise to introduce a legal right to independent living if they win power at next month’s general election. The calls came after Labour yesterday (Wednesday) announced a real-terms increase of […]

ROFA’s draft manifesto calls for end to austerity and a right to independent living

By John Pring on 24th October 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ROFA’s draft manifesto calls for end to austerity and a right to independent living
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Political parties are set to be told to promise an end to austerity, a legal right to independent living and an immediate end to universal credit, if they want disabled people’s support at the next general election. The Reclaiming Our Futures […]

Labour conference: Disabled journalist bids to break new ground in parliament

By John Pring on 26th September 2019 Category: Politics

Labour conference: Disabled journalist bids to break new ground in parliament
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A disabled Reuters journalist and Labour activist hopes to become what he believes would be the first MP with such a significant level of impairment to be elected to the House of Commons. Peter Apps, a global affairs commentator with Reuters […]

Labour pledges ‘transformation’ of social security as it fleshes out disability policies

By John Pring on 7th June 2017 Category: Politics

Labour pledges ‘transformation’ of social security as it fleshes out disability policies
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Labour has pledged to “transform” the social security system and to set out a bill to repeal cuts to disabled people’s benefits within a year, in one of the headline measures of a mini-manifesto devoted solely to disability issues. The document, […]

DPAC targets marginal seats with quartet of films on austerity impact

By John Pring on 7th June 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC targets marginal seats with quartet of films on austerity impact
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Anti-cuts activists have produced four films that show the impact of austerity on disabled people, in a bid to boost Labour’s chances in 50 marginal constituencies in the run-up to election day. Each of the short films being used by Disabled […]

Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Human Rights

Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people
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Labour has promised that it will take a “rights-based approach” to protecting the interests of disabled people, if it wins power at next week’s general election. At the centre of that approach will be incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights […]

Election 2017: Parties finally stress importance of working-age social care

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Election 2017: Parties finally stress importance of working-age social care
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The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour have all spoken publicly – apparently for the first time in the general election campaign – about what their parties would do to address the social care needs of working-age disabled people. Their comments follow […]

Election 2017: Tories’ social care plans ignore working-age disabled people

By John Pring on 25th May 2017 Category: Independent Living

Election 2017: Tories’ social care plans ignore working-age disabled people
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Disabled campaigners have criticised the Conservative party for ignoring the social care needs of hundreds of thousands of working-age disabled people in its general election manifesto. The prime minister, Theresa May, was already facing criticism for a chaotic U-turn over the […]

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