Professor Peter Beresford

Independent Living

August 2, 2018 0

Sale of 17 Leonard Cheshire homes ‘makes mockery of user-involvement pledge’

The disability charity Leonard Cheshire has been accused of making “a complete mockery” of its supposed commitment to service-user involvement after it suddenly told residents of 17 of its care homes that it plans to sell them to other care providers. The plan will see about one-sixth of its 104 residential services being sold

Activism and Campaigning

June 28, 2018 0

Office for Disability Issues ‘taking no action’ to halt closure of DPOs

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The government’s Office for Disability Issues is apparently failing to take any action to address “worrying” concerns about disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that are being forced to close because of funding problems. Earlier this month, two prominent user-led organisations spoke out about the “urgent” need for research into the falling number of DPOs across

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Baroness Campbell speaking in the House of Lords, with a PA by her side

April 19, 2018 0

Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans

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Government plans for a huge expansion of personal health budgets could help to deliver independent living for disabled people, according to a leading disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell (pictured), who has been receiving a personal health budget herself for more than a year, said the plans also had “huge potential” for “getting to grips”

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Jeremy Hunt speaking in the House of Commons

January 11, 2018 0

Ministerial reshuffle: Concern over further social care role for Hunt

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The government’s decision to rebrand the Department of Health as the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has raised concerns about its plans for addressing the social care funding crisis. This week’s ministerial reshuffle saw the number of ministers in the department rising from five to six, with Philip Dunne sacked and the

Politics

June 15, 2017 0

Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

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Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and optimism to a general election that saw the Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority. Some believe that a resurgent Labour party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, which defied mainstream media opposition and polling predictions to increase its number of MPs by 30, will

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Long windows on the front of the Department of Health and Social Care offices in Whitehall

July 28, 2016

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Downgrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’

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The Department of Health has been heavily criticised for downgrading the seniority of the minister in charge of adult social care. The last four ministers responsible for social care – Labour’s Phil Hope, Liberal Democrats Paul Burstow and Norman Lamb, and Tory Alistair Burt – were all ministers of state, senior ministers one level

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