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A disabled crossbench peer has called on the government to introduce a “comprehensive” scheme that would provide the kind of “wraparound” support that would allow disabled people to live an independent life. Baroness [Jane] Campbell called for a radical and comprehensive […]
A leading disabled activist has told a parliamentary meeting of the need for a “new approach” to supporting disabled people that focuses on the promotion of independent living. Bob Williams-Findlay, a former chair of the British Council of Disabled People and […]
The health and social care secretary appears to have ruled out sweeping changes to the funding system for adult social care. Matt Hancock, giving evidence about the adult social care funding crisis to a House of Lords committee on Tuesday (pictured), […]
Disabled people’s support to live independently in England is subject to a “dramatic” postcode lottery, according to new research carried out by disabled activists. The research by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) – based on freedom of information requests to councils […]
A council has been accused of being “vindictive” and trying to “silence” a disabled people’s organisation (DPO) by withdrawing funding for its advice service, just months after the DPO published a critical report about social care provision in the borough. Labour-run […]
One of the country’s best-known and most-respected disabled campaigners has pledged to devote the last months of his life to trying to save the independent living movement. John Evans was speaking at an event held to celebrate his contribution to the […]
Campaigning disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have set out their demands for a new national independent living service that would eliminate the postcode lottery in support, and finally make the right to independent living a reality. The Independent Living for the Future […]
The health and social care secretary appears to have accidentally confessed to having no plans for dealing with the worsening social care recruitment crisis that is almost certain to hit the UK if the country is forced into a no-deal Brexit. […]
The Welsh government’s decision to close its independent living grant scheme and pass the funding to local authorities could see cuts to the support packages of hundreds of disabled people, new research suggests. Disabled campaigners say that information released by local […]
Ministers have quietly decided to include the support needs of working-age disabled people in their new social care green paper, scrapping the idea of having a separate “parallel programme of work” as they try to address the social care funding crisis. […]