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Care Act easements set to be scrapped, but SEN measures will stay

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Education

Care Act easements set to be scrapped, but SEN measures will stay
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The government is to abandon measures that ran “a coach and horses” through the right to social care during the pandemic, but similar restrictions imposed on disabled young people’s right to education are set to remain. The measures were all part […]

Government backs down over inaccessible shielding letters, hours before court case

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government backs down over inaccessible shielding letters, hours before court case
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The government has been forced to make a series of promises aimed at improving the accessibility of the way it communicates with those shielding from coronavirus. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made the concessions hours before it was […]

Guarded response to health and social care white paper

By John Pring on 18th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Guarded response to health and social care white paper
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Disabled campaigners have given a guarded response to the government’s new health and social care white paper, with particular concerns about the continuing social care funding crisis and ministers’ failure to pledge proper co-production and engagement with service-users. Much of the […]

Planning failure ‘meant government had to start shielding scheme from scratch’

By John Pring on 11th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Planning failure ‘meant government had to start shielding scheme from scratch’
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The government’s failure to prepare for disabled people needing to shield from a pandemic meant they had to develop a shielding scheme from scratch at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the spending watchdog has found. In a new report, the […]

Hancock faces court action over accessible shielding information

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Hancock faces court action over accessible shielding information
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The high court is set to hear a disabled woman’s claim that the government breached equality and human rights laws by failing to provide her with accessible shielding information during the pandemic. Sarah Leadbetter, from Narborough, Leicestershire, who is blind and […]

Rights concerns over major Mental Health Act reforms

By John Pring on 14th January 2021 Category: Human Rights

Rights concerns over major Mental Health Act reforms
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User-led grassroots groups have raised serious concerns about the government’s new mental health white paper, particularly its failure to offer the full human rights set out in the UN disability convention. The white paper, published yesterday (Wednesday), aims to deliver “major […]

Shielders ‘left adrift’ after government’s COVID guidance failure

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Independent Living

Shielders ‘left adrift’ after government’s COVID guidance failure
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Disabled people who have been shielding at home say they are having to rely on peer support and their own judgement to protect themselves from the pandemic, after despairing at the lack of clear government guidance. Many of those who have […]

Government ignores calls to scrap COVID care restrictions

By John Pring on 1st October 2020 Category: Human Rights

Government ignores calls to scrap COVID care restrictions
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The government has ignored repeated calls from disabled people’s organisations and allies to scrap measures that limit the rights of disabled adults and children to social care and education support during the pandemic crisis. In the first parliamentary review of temporary […]

Disabled peers call on government to scrap Care Act coronavirus powers

By John Pring on 17th September 2020 Category: Independent Living

Disabled peers call on government to scrap Care Act coronavirus powers
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Two disabled peers have called on the health and social care secretary to scrap powers given to local authorities that allow them to suspend some of their social care duties during the coronavirus pandemic. Crossbench peers Baroness [Jane] Campbell and Baroness […]

Round-up: ‘No DSS’ court case, DPO grants, Hancock on social care… and clear face masks

By John Pring on 10th September 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Round-up: ‘No DSS’ court case, DPO grants, Hancock on social care… and clear face masks
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A court has found in favour of a disabled dad who argued that he was being discriminated against by an estate agent who prevented him viewing properties because he was claiming housing benefit. Stephen Tyler has been barred from viewing properties […]

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