Chancellor ignores calls to act on impact of austerity, as Newton quits over Brexit
The chancellor has ignored repeated calls for the government to take urgent steps to ease…
Browsing: Professor Peter Beresford
User-led sector ‘faces threat of extinction’
User-led organisations across the country are continuing to close, with the sector even facing a…
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…
Office for Disability Issues ‘taking no action’ to halt closure of DPOs
The government’s Office for Disability Issues is apparently failing to take any action to address…
Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans
Government plans for a huge expansion of personal health budgets could help to deliver independent…
Ministerial reshuffle: Concern over further social care role for Hunt
The government’s decision to rebrand the Department of Health as the Department of Health and…
Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result
Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and optimism to a general…
MPs make ‘crucial’ call over national tax rises to solve social care funding crisis
A committee of MPs has issued a “crucially important” call for the government to consider…
High-profile social care funding demands ‘risk ignoring voices of service-users’
The latest attempts by politicians and charities to push for a solution to the social…
Downgrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’
The Department of Health has been heavily criticised for downgrading the seniority of the minister…