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Senior Liberal Democrat MPs have insisted they are still committed to social care reform and want to move towards eliminating all care charges, despite the party saying little or nothing about the issue during its annual conference this week. Liberal Democrat […]
A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in England to be rated as “inadequate” over its adult social care responsibilities. A report by the Care Quality […]
Disabled people who rely on social care are still struggling to pay their personal assistants (PAs), more than a month after a catastrophic technology failure. The failure struck on 13 July and hit people who use direct payments to arrange council-funded […]
The choices made by the UK state on how the social care system is structured mean that the impact of the pandemic in this area should be “ground zero” for the Covid inquiry’s investigations, disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have argued. Four […]
Disabled people have undergone a “huge rollback” in their rights and social security support since the pandemic, a disability rights campaigner and adviser has told the Covid inquiry. Despite politicians promising they would be “building back better”, Joanne Sansome told the […]
A catastrophic technology failure has left thousands of disabled people across the country who rely on social care struggling to pay their personal assistants (PAs). The failure has hit people who use direct payments to arrange council-funded care and support in […]
Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support were “ignored by design” during the pandemic. The inquiry heard on Monday that there were more than 43,000 deaths involving COVID-19 in care […]
A disabled MP has dropped his support for the assisted suicide bill, largely because of concerns that “broken” social care and palliative care services could push terminally-ill people into seeking an assisted death. Steve Darling told Disability News Service (DNS) this […]
Separate reports have highlighted how years of failed government promises on reform have left broken adult social care systems in both England and Scotland. In England, MPs on the Commons health and social care committee published a report this week warning […]
Disabled campaigners have reacted with despair and exasperation to the government’s “deeply disappointing” announcement that it is delaying long-term reform of the adult social care system in England. Instead of announcing immediate plans for long-term reform, health and social care secretary […]