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Disabled residents of a Leonard Cheshire care home have described the charity’s actions as “underhand”, “immoral” and “despicable” after it suddenly announced plans to close the service and sell the building. Two residents of Chiltern House, in Gerrards Cross, south Buckinghamshire, […]
The government began planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state more than a decade before she died, it claimed this week, despite the eventual arrangements deteriorating into “a shambles”. The Department […]
The government ignored crucial advice from disability organisations when it was planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people who wanted to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall, it emerged this week. The Department for Digital, […]
Ministers have broken a pledge made in their National Disability Strategy to set up a taskforce of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that would help them access more government contracts, by allowing non-user-led charities to join the group. The strategy pledged last […]
A disabled campaigner is hoping to launch a legal action against government COVID rules that force residents of care homes to isolate for two weeks every time they attend a medical appointment or visit a shop. Doug Paulley has also told […]
The government has been accused of showing “contempt” and “indifference” towards disabled people, after announcing large grants to 13 disability charities but failing to offer a penny to organisations run and controlled by disabled people. The Department of Health and Social […]
Disabled activists have dismissed talk of a possible merger between two of the country’s largest disability charities as a “rebranding” exercise that would only “shore up a failing business model”. Scope and Leonard Cheshire this week denied reports – based apparently […]
A new book by a leading disabled activist has accused disability charities of being more interested in their own survival than in defending disabled people from a decade of cuts and oppression. In The War on Disabled People*, published next week, […]
Disabled people’s organisations have called on charities that are not user-led to “move over and stop taking our space”. The calls came during the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) national conference, which had been due to take place in Manchester, but […]
Fresh concerns have been raised about the government’s commitment to testing social care service-users and staff – despite new ministerial announcements – following reports that suggest thousands of care home residents have died after being infected with coronavirus. This week saw […]