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Meeting sees relaunch of ‘bold and brilliant’ independent living strategy

By John Pring on 26th November 2020 Category: Independent Living

Meeting sees relaunch of ‘bold and brilliant’ independent living strategy
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Disabled activists hope to build a new social movement that will campaign for a “bold and brilliant” national independent living service that would be available free of charge to anyone in England who needs it. They used an online meeting to […]

Activist wins historic election to new Labour role and calls on party to end discrimination

By John Pring on 19th November 2020 Category: Politics

Activist wins historic election to new Labour role and calls on party to end discrimination
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Labour’s first elected representative of its disabled members on its national ruling body has called on the party to take the opportunity to address the years of discrimination they have faced. Ellen Morrison won an historic but narrow victory on Friday […]

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges

By John Pring on 9th April 2020 Category: Politics

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges
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Keir Starmer is set to face pressure from the disabled people’s movement to commit his party to keep a series of pledges he made during his successful campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Among the most striking of those […]

Election 2019: Labour pledges to ‘make independent living a reality’

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: Labour pledges to ‘make independent living a reality’
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Labour has pledged to make independent living a reality through a string of measures, including billions of pounds of extra funding for care and support packages, although it has stopped short of offering a free, England-wide, independent living service. The party […]

Election 2019: Greens set to outdo other parties on independent living

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: Greens set to outdo other parties on independent living
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The Greens have become the first major party to pledge to introduce a solution to England’s social care crisis that has been devised by the disabled people’s movement, if it wins power at next month’s general election. The party says in […]

Election 2019: New calls for legal right to independent living, but silence from parties

By John Pring on 14th November 2019 Category: Independent Living

Election 2019: New calls for legal right to independent living, but silence from parties
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Disabled people’s organisations have repeated their calls for political parties to promise to introduce a legal right to independent living if they win power at next month’s general election. The calls came after Labour yesterday (Wednesday) announced a real-terms increase of […]

Queen’s speech social care pledge ‘is waffle and a smokescreen’

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Queen’s speech social care pledge ‘is waffle and a smokescreen’
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The government’s promise in this week’s Queen’s speech to introduce proposals to solve the adult social care crisis has been dismissed by leading disabled campaigners as “waffle”, a “smokescreen” and “the same old platitudes”. A speech laying out Boris Johnson’s first […]

‘Disappointment and sadness’ over Labour’s social care policy

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Independent Living

‘Disappointment and sadness’ over Labour’s social care policy
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Frustrated disabled campaigners have expressed “massive disappointment” at Labour’s latest policy announcement on social care, after it failed again to commit to introducing a legal right to independent living if it wins power. Jeremy Corbyn promised on Tuesday that a Labour […]

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Independent Living

Tory conference: Solution to social care crisis ‘may finally be within reach’
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A permanent solution to the social care funding crisis may finally be within reach, with growing calls for proposals that would include free social care, according to a former adviser to the Tory health and social care secretary. Richard Sloggett, who […]

Labour conference: Activists set for fight to persuade leadership on independent living

By John Pring on 26th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

Labour conference: Activists set for fight to persuade leadership on independent living
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Disabled people have a fight ahead of them to convince Labour’s leadership to accept the need for a universal right to independent living, say activists, despite the annual conference voting overwhelmingly in favour of it becoming party policy. Sunday’s vote passed […]

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