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Disabled election candidates: Liberal Democrat Katharine Macy

By John Pring on 27th June 2024 Category: Politics

Disabled election candidates: Liberal Democrat Katharine Macy
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Katharine Macy grew up “hearing about people faking disabilities to lounge around on benefits”, but they knew the truth, because they had a mother who struggled to leave the house and desperately wanted to return to work. “I remember her crying […]

Disabled election candidates: Liberal Democrat Richard Whelan

By John Pring on 20th June 2024 Category: Politics

Disabled election candidates: Liberal Democrat Richard Whelan
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Life for disabled people is hard, and getting harder, and they feel “constantly under attack”, according to Liberal Democrat election candidate Richard Whelan. One of his priorities, if elected, would be to ensure that the Equality Act 2010 is properly enforced. […]

Lib Dem manifesto targets care charges, and promises to implement UN disability convention

By John Pring on 13th June 2024 Category: Politics

Lib Dem manifesto targets care charges, and promises to implement UN disability convention
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The Liberal Democrats have devoted a significant part of their manifesto to reforming adult social care and supporting independent living, but they have also pledged to implement the UN disability convention into law if they win power at the election.   […]

Lib Dems’ free personal care pledge is ‘step in the right direction’, say disabled campaigners

By John Pring on 6th June 2024 Category: Independent Living

Lib Dems’ free personal care pledge is ‘step in the right direction’, say disabled campaigners
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Disabled people’s organisations have given a cautious but positive welcome to proposals from the Liberal Democrats to offer free personal care to all adults if they win power at the general election. In a policy pledge unlikely to be matched either […]

Met took formal action on just nine disability hate crimes in 2023, hustings is told

By John Pring on 11th April 2024 Category: Crime

Met took formal action on just nine disability hate crimes in 2023, hustings is told
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Only nine disability hate crimes in the whole of London led to significant action being taken by police last year, politicians have been told during a disabled people’s election hustings event. Although 600 disability hate crimes were recorded by the Metropolitan […]

Disabled politician won’t fight general election after ‘intolerable’ hate crime

By John Pring on 22nd February 2024 Category: Politics

Disabled politician won’t fight general election after ‘intolerable’ hate crime
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A disabled politician has announced he will not stand for his party at the next general election because of the rising and “intolerable” levels of hate crime directed towards him as someone with a stammer. Chris Nelson (pictured) has stood for […]

Liberal Democrats edge ahead of Labour on charging, with free personal care pledge

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Independent Living

Liberal Democrats edge ahead of Labour on charging, with free personal care pledge
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The Liberal Democrats have promised to introduce free personal care for all adults if they win power at the next general election, although there are question-marks over key details of their pledge. Party members this week approved a £5 billion-a-year plan […]

Disabled politician sues Lib Dems over discrimination that left her suicidal

By John Pring on 14th September 2023 Category: Politics

Disabled politician sues Lib Dems over discrimination that left her suicidal
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A disabled politician has described how the discriminatory treatment she received at the hands of the Liberal Democrats, as one of the party’s elected councillors, was so bad it triggered epileptic seizures and left her feeling suicidal. Avril Coelho, a former […]

Tories and Labour silent on social care charging, a week before local elections

By John Pring on 27th April 2023 Category: Independent Living

Tories and Labour silent on social care charging, a week before local elections
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The Conservative and Labour parties have both refused to reveal their current policies on charging for adult social care, just days before local elections in England. Disability News Service (DNS) approached the four largest parties contesting next week’s elections – the […]

MPs who refused to quiz minister on benefit deaths ‘have failed disabled people’

By John Pring on 21st July 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs who refused to quiz minister on benefit deaths ‘have failed disabled people’
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MPs have refused to quiz the disability minister about new research that brings together more than 30 years of evidence linking her department with the deaths of countless disabled benefit claimants. The draft version of the Deaths by Welfare timeline features more […]

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