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The government’s policy of opening more and more special schools is stripping funding from mainstream settings and handing it to profit-making bodies, disabled campaigners have warned. They said the government was allowing these organisations to make “huge profits” through the “institutionalisation […]
Ministers have ignored calls from their own consultants to invest more money in cutting the number of people with learning difficulties and autistic people in inpatient mental health settings, despite new figures showing progress has ground to a halt. The figures […]
Two ministers have dismissed mounting evidence of a care funding crisis and have repeatedly insisted that local councils have all the money they need to “effectively” deliver social care services. Both social care minister Gillian Keegan and local government minister Kemi […]
The newly-appointed care minister has admitted that she was completely unaware of disabled people’s criticism of the prime minister’s controversial social care reforms. Gillian Keegan, appointed to the role only last month, told Disability News Service (DNS) this week that she […]