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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to alert GPs and social services to the “very extensive” difficulties a disabled man was facing, three months before he died in conditions of severe self-neglect. A safeguarding review of the death of […]
Devastated disabled campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against care charges, after parliament ignored their concerns and passed a government bill that will fail to protect most working-age disabled people from the “catastrophic” costs of their care. The House of […]
Disabled activists are calling for local authorities to take urgent action, following an ombudsman ruling that a disabled woman took her own life after being wrongly sent a string of invoices demanding payment of care charges she did not owe. The […]
The boss of a leading disabled people’s organisation has told peers of the need for a change in “mindset” about adult social care provision that appears automatically to view disabled people as “dependent”. Ian Loynes, chief executive of Spectrum Centre for […]
A disabled peer has appealed to disabled people and their organisations to pressure MPs to accept changes to the government’s health and care bill that offer “a better, fairer” system of care charges. Baroness [Jane] Campbell spoke out after she warned […]
Disabled people have told a House of Lords committee that the social care system needs to enable those who need support to “live an ordinary life”. Sue Bott, Andy McCabe and Tricia Nicoll were giving evidence to the Lords social care […]
A local authority is referring disabled people to debt collection agencies more than 3,000 times a year for failing to pay adult social care charges, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed. Birmingham City Council (BCC) passed on […]
Tens of thousands of disabled people across the country are having debt collection action taken against them every year by their local authorities over unpaid care charges, information secured by disabled campaigners has revealed. Cheshire Disabled People Against Cuts (CDPAC) and […]
The government has dismissed strong cross-party support in the House of Lords for proposals that would mean many disabled people never having to pay for their social care. The proposed amendment to the government’s health and care bill would mean that […]
Labour has failed to explain how it would respond to the independent living crisis and calls for an end to care charging if it won power, despite its leader announcing a new “five-point plan for the transformation of social care”. Keir […]