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Election 2019: Labour pledges to ‘make independent living a reality’

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: Labour pledges to ‘make independent living a reality’
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Labour has pledged to make independent living a reality through a string of measures, including billions of pounds of extra funding for care and support packages, although it has stopped short of offering a free, England-wide, independent living service. The party […]

Election 2019: Lib Dems overlook working-age social care reform… again

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

Election 2019: Lib Dems overlook working-age social care reform… again
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The Liberal Democrats have failed to offer a detailed policy on how they would reform care and support for working-age disabled people if they win the election, although they have pledged to reopen the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The manifesto failure […]

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 […]

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge

By John Pring on 31st October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Cabinet minister admits ‘no consensus’ on social care, despite Johnson’s pledge
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A cabinet minister has admitted there is “no consensus” on how to solve the adult social care funding crisis, even though the prime minister announced he had a “clear plan” for doing so when he took office in October. Robert Jenrick, […]

Queen’s speech social care pledge ‘is waffle and a smokescreen’

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Queen’s speech social care pledge ‘is waffle and a smokescreen’
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The government’s promise in this week’s Queen’s speech to introduce proposals to solve the adult social care crisis has been dismissed by leading disabled campaigners as “waffle”, a “smokescreen” and “the same old platitudes”. A speech laying out Boris Johnson’s first […]

‘Disappointment and sadness’ over Labour’s social care policy

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Independent Living

‘Disappointment and sadness’ over Labour’s social care policy
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Frustrated disabled campaigners have expressed “massive disappointment” at Labour’s latest policy announcement on social care, after it failed again to commit to introducing a legal right to independent living if it wins power. Jeremy Corbyn promised on Tuesday that a Labour […]

Labour conference: Activists set for fight to persuade leadership on independent living

By John Pring on 26th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

Labour conference: Activists set for fight to persuade leadership on independent living
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Disabled people have a fight ahead of them to convince Labour’s leadership to accept the need for a universal right to independent living, say activists, despite the annual conference voting overwhelmingly in favour of it becoming party policy. Sunday’s vote passed […]

Welsh government ignores social care funding crisis… in independent living action plan

By John Pring on 26th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

Welsh government ignores social care funding crisis… in independent living action plan
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The Welsh government has completely ignored the social care funding crisis in a new action plan aimed at ensuring disabled people’s right to independent living. A public consultation process with disabled people and disability organisations led to “multiple calls” for increased […]

Lib Dem conference: Party ‘probably overlooked’ working-age disabled people

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

Lib Dem conference: Party ‘probably overlooked’ working-age disabled people
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The Liberal Democrats have admitted that they probably “overlooked” the need for a detailed policy on the care and support needs of working-age disabled people. The admission to Disability News Service (DNS) by the party’s health spokesperson in the Lords, Baroness […]

New group aims to ‘reclaim the true meaning of independent living’

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

New group aims to ‘reclaim the true meaning of independent living’
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A new group of disabled people and allies in Bristol has been set up to “reclaim the true meaning of independent living”. Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL), which launched this week, is determined to remind the government and others in positions […]

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