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'Quarter of care
users hit by cuts with worse to come, say charities'
www.communitycare.co.uk
Almost a quarter of adult care users or carers have had their
services cut before the full impact of government reductions in
council budgets starts being felt from 1 April onwards, leading
charities have found...Read
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29/03/2011 |
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Social Care Institute for Excellence - making
events accessible
www.scie.org.uk
This wiki will create a guide to making social care events
accessible. At SCIE, we believe that social care events should
be accessible to everyone. ...Read
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28/03/2011 |
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Blue Badge Reform Program
www.dft.gov.uk
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport (Norman
Baker) said: "I am today publishing the Government’s plans for
reforming the Blue Badge (Disabled Parking) Scheme... Read
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24/03/2011 |
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CENSUS 2011 - ACCESSIBILITY
The 2011 Census is fast approaching and the Office for National
Statistics has been working with a range of national disability
organisations to ensure it's the most accessible census yet...Read
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21/03/2011 |
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'Social care
outsourcing drive "bad for users and staff"'
www.communitycare.co.uk
The government's
drive to outsource social care and other public services
risks damaging service quality, weakening accountability
and harming working conditions, a report has said...Read
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21/03/2011 |
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Pensioner wins legal bid over cuts to cleaning
service
www.bbc.co.uk
A wheelchair-using pensioner has won a legal
challenge over the withdrawal of cleaning services at her
specially-adapted bungalow...
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11/03/2011 |
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Welfare overhaul plan passes first parliamentary hurdle
www.bbc.co.uk
The government's welfare reform bill got its
second reading in the House of Commons with a majority of 288.
During the debate, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
reassured cancer charities that he would listen to their
concerns...Read
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11/03/2011 |
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'Drop disability reforms' say more than 100 social care experts
www.communitycare.co.uk
More than 100 prominent social care academics and policy experts
have urged the government to drop its plans for welfare reform
because, they say, the plans will penalise disabled people...Read
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09/03/2011 |
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New blue badge disabled parking crackdown in
England
www.bbc.co.uk
Disabled groups are welcoming a government crackdown on the
widespread abuse of the "blue badge" parking scheme in England...
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02/03/2011 |
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Concern over disability benefit cuts
www.bbc.co.uk
A Cambridgeshire disability charity has said new tests to find
out who is entitled to benefits are not working....Read
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02/03/2011 |
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Council face legal challenge over care cuts
www.communitycare.co.uk
Birmingham Council is facing a legal challenge over its plan to
set an unprecedentedly high "super-critical" threshold for adult
care...Read
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02/03/2011 |
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Ministers' own advisers slam disability benefit cuts
www.communitycare.co.uk
The government's own welfare advisers have slammed its plan to
make £2.2bn worth of cuts to disability living allowance...Read
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02/03/2011 |
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Your Views Count This is an exciting opportunity for
you to be part of discussions on what help from social care
could look like in Herefordshire; to work with the council to
change services, get involved - or run them yourselves...Read
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02/03/2011 |
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