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It was the emergency planning systems that proved to be “vulnerable” during the Covid pandemic, and not disabled people, the UK Covid inquiry has been told by two national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). Disability Wales and Disability Rights UK (DR UK) told the inquiry, […]
The levels of exclusion experienced by disabled people in Wales during the pandemic led many to report confusion, helplessness, abandonment, isolation, fear and frustration, according to a ground-breaking, disabled-led report. The Locked Out report*, commissioned by the Welsh government, details how […]
A pioneering project to set up a user-controlled cooperative should boost the number of disabled people in Wales who use direct payments to fund their own support. The Citizen Directed Co-operatives Cymru (CDCC) project will support disabled people to develop a […]