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Disabled people will be left at risk of serious harm if a council goes ahead with plans to introduce new charges for one of its “vital” care services, a disabled people’s organisation has warned.
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DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five ...
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Hospitals would not initially be protected from electricity cuts in a ‘national power outage’, government admits
Hospitals and other “priority customers” would not be protected from power cuts in the first days of an unplanned “national ...
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Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country
A disabled people’s organisation is hoping its new disability justice project will draw support from across the country and ...
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London Assembly gives unanimous backing to DPO’s call for a disability equality champion for the capital
Members of the London Assembly have unanimously backed a call for the mayor to take a “strategic” approach to improving the ...
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Disabled campaigners call on government to take seven key steps in response to final Grenfell report
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the government to take seven key steps in response to the final report ...
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‘Risk of serious harm’ if council goes ahead with telecare charges, say disabled campaigners
Disabled people will be left at risk of serious harm if a council goes ahead with plans to introduce new charges for one of ...
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Commons confirms MPs received DWP ‘violence’ book, as Reeves warns of ‘difficult’ decisions on ‘welfare’
The House of Commons has met its promise to distribute hundreds of copies of a book about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “bureaucratic violence” to MPs, just as Labour’s chancellor was ...