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Independent Living Fund: Minister’s ‘unbelievable’ failure to prove Commons boast

By John Pring on 9th January 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Independent Living, News Archive, Politics

Independent Living Fund: Minister’s ‘unbelievable’ failure to prove Commons boast
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The minister for disabled people has been accused of an “unbelievable” and “very worrying” failure to prove his claim that disability organisations “agree with the government” on its policy to shut the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mark Harper told MPs last […]

Independent Living Fund: ‘Target every MP before general election’

By John Pring on 9th January 2015 Category: Human Rights, Independent Living, News Archive

Independent Living Fund: ‘Target every MP before general election’
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Disabled activists have been told to target every single candidate in May’s general election, to demand their backing for the campaign to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The call came as about 100 activists – many of them ILF-users – […]

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