Debbie Jolly: a ‘force for good’ and a passionate social model advocate
Activists have paid tribute to Debbie Jolly, a central figure in the disabled people’s anti-cuts…
Browsing: Linda Burnip
Anger at Osborne’s working-age benefits freeze
Campaigners say the government’s decision to enforce a freeze on working-age benefits from April –…
Government’s new PIP proposals ‘will drive more into poverty and despair’
The government looks set to tighten eligibility for its new disability benefit, just two years…
Threat to independent living as council plots raid on high-cost care
A cost-cutting council is set to introduce new policies that will force disabled people with…
Fresh concerns over transition from ILF closure
New evidence has cast further doubt on how both central government and local authorities have…
Councils tell different stories than government on ILF closure funding
The aftermath of the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) has descended further into…
ILF closure: Shock over government’s funding fiasco
The government has yet to tell English local authorities how much money they will be…
Independent Living Fund: Minister’s ‘unbelievable’ failure to prove Commons boast
The minister for disabled people has been accused of an “unbelievable” and “very worrying” failure…