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Fresh evidence has emerged of delays and cuts to care packages as local authorities prepare for the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has admitted to Disability News Service (DNS) that […]
Government policies on social care, health and benefits risk sending disabled people sliding back to “the bad old days of dependency, isolation and poverty”, a disabled peer has warned. In a Lords debate on the Queen’s speech, Baroness [Jane] Campbell urged […]
A high court ruling has raised new concerns about how disabled people will be affected by the combination of three major government reforms of social care, and the funding crisis facing local authorities. Two disabled children, known as L and P, […]