A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has launched a pioneering new social enterprise that will make it easier for disabled people to secure personal assistants to support them at work. Breakthrough UK – one of the UK’s longest-established DPOs – said EqualEdge […]
Personal assistants
PA employers cling to independence as minister tells of frustration at his own government
Leading independent living figure tells peers of crucial role of personal assistance
Government finally agrees to continue some free Covid testing for PAs
Access to Work’s 12-week backlog, as DWP offers ‘work for free’ advice to PAs
Peer calls for disabled people to ‘take control’ over PA vaccinations
Coronavirus: New NHS guidance ‘leaves door open to dangerous discrimination’
Coronavirus: Control over support is helping keep disabled people safe, evidence suggests
Coronavirus: PA guidance is finally published… five weeks late
Coronavirus: Government’s continuing failure on PA guidance ‘will cost lives’
The government’s continuing failure to produce accessible information and guidance to help disabled people protect themselves during the coronavirus crisis is unacceptable and will cost lives, disabled people’s organisations have warned. Disabled campaigners spoke out after the Department of Health and […]