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Change of mindset is needed on adult social care, DPO boss tells peers

By John Pring on 14th April 2022 Category: Independent Living

Change of mindset is needed on adult social care, DPO boss tells peers
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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 […]

Care crisis: Anger over CCG’s ‘unacceptable’ policy on residential care

By John Pring on 13th October 2016 Category: Independent Living

Care crisis: Anger over CCG’s ‘unacceptable’ policy on residential care
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Disabled people who need more than eight hours of long-term healthcare a day should be pushed into residential care rather than being allowed to continue living at home, according to a policy introduced by NHS bosses. The NHS Continuing Healthcare Choice […]

Council ‘pays Capita to cut care packages’

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Independent Living

Council ‘pays Capita to cut care packages’
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A local authority has employed the outsourcing giant Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of its service-users’ care packages, in an apparent attempt to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget. The “pilot project” has so […]

Peer support ‘could provide impetus for government’s jobs pledge’

By John Pring on 26th May 2016 Category: Employment

Peer support ‘could provide impetus for government’s jobs pledge’
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Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used far more in government work programmes, according to two new studies. The research from Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and The Work […]

Threat to independent living as council plots raid on high-cost care

By John Pring on 11th December 2015 Category: Independent Living

Threat to independent living as council plots raid on high-cost care
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A cost-cutting council is set to introduce new policies that will force disabled people with high-cost support packages out of their own homes and into residential and nursing institutions. Labour-run Southampton city council wants to cut its adult social care budget […]

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