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New government provides details on five disability policy pledges

By John Pring on 2nd January 2020 Category: Politics

New government provides details on five disability policy pledges
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The new Conservative government has described how it plans to fulfil the five major disability policy pledges it included in its general election manifesto. The details were included in a briefing document published alongside last month’s Queen’s speech by prime minister […]

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 […]

Ministers’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech
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Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for new social security legislation were dropped from last week’s Queen’s speech. Disability News Service reported last week how a Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability assessment (WCA) through […]

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Politics

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused
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A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to government-led austerity and the “personal misery” it has caused. Lord [Colin] Low, speaking in the Lords debate on last week’s Queen’s speech, said he believed the result of the general election […]

Queen’s speech: Government will consult on social care funding, but silence on needs of working-age disabled people… again

By John Pring on 22nd June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Queen’s speech: Government will consult on social care funding, but silence on needs of working-age disabled people… again
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The government has confirmed in the Queen’s speech that it plans to consult on its proposals to address the funding crisis affecting older people’s social care, but has again failed to make any mention of the needs of working-age disabled people. […]

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’

By John Pring on 29th May 2015 Category: Politics

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’
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Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years disabled campaigners have warned in the wake of this week’s Queen’s speech. The speech, which laid out plans for what the prime […]

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