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Lib Dem conference: ‘Charities have failed and must now allow service-users to be heard’

By John Pring on 21st September 2017 Category: Independent Living

Lib Dem conference: ‘Charities have failed and must now allow service-users to be heard’
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A former care services minister has called for a new social movement that is driven by the views and voices of service-users – rather than the charities that try to speak on their behalf – to push for change in the […]

Disabled campaigner seeks to become first transgender MP

By John Pring on 12th December 2014 Category: News Archive, Politics

Disabled campaigner seeks to become first transgender MP
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A disabled politician is hoping to become the first transgender person to be elected to parliament, when she contests next May’s general election. Emily Brothers is standing for Labour against the Liberal Democrat former minister Paul Burstow in the Sutton and […]

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