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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have secured a promise from Greater Manchester’s mayor that he will ask his party why it dropped a promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election. Andy Burnham […]
An inquiry that will have significant influence on Labour’s policy on independent living at the next general election is set to rule out scrapping care charges, according to a document leaked to Disability News Service. The document, a summary of a […]
Labour activists are pushing their party for a stronger commitment to plans drawn up by disabled people that would solve the social care crisis by setting up a co-produced National Independent Living Service (NILS). A motion based on the NILS plans […]