women with visible and invisible disabilities
This week Wednesday 2 and Thursday 2 December, the legal challenge by a disabled woman and her mother against care charges by Norfolk County Council is in the High Court (remote hearing). This Judicial Review comes after two years of Disability Network Norfolk group members fighting these charges and a year since starting the legal … Read more
Dear friends, Your views and support are needed on new proposals for the benefits system from the Commission on Social Security, a claimants’ panel. Please share this with your friends and networks. Responses to the questionnaire needed by 31 October Disabled mothers and family carers on the Commission, including us, pressed for proposals to include … Read more
Report shared from Disability News Service: By John Pring on 24th September 2020 Campaigners have asked a local authority why it has taken the “inexcusable” step of increasing care charges for disabled people in the middle of a pandemic. Greenwich council was warned last year that planned increases to the contributions disabled service-users have to make towards council-funded care would … Read more
Dear friends, Here is our statement sent to the Health and Social Care Select Committee. This is a cross-party committee of MPs which is responsible for scrutinising the work of the Department of Health and Social Care. They invited people and groups to send views and experiences for their inquiry, Social care: funding and workforce, … Read more
We’re alarmed as today on the news it was reported that before Coronavirus, the government was in discussions to revive the Dilnot Commission “lifetime cap on charges” for social care. Which is accompanied by higher taxation of people individually to fund social care. This is not the answer to the social care crisis. WinVisible and … Read more
Our letter is out in the Camden New Journal, 24 April 2020, read it here. And below with links to further info: The reality for disabled people, mainly women, is that the measures against Coronavirus are threatening our lives through starvation, and denial of medical treatment and social care. Most self-isolating sick and disabled people … Read more
Hammersmith & Fulham Council is well-known as the only borough in the whole of England to have free homecare services. Other resident-friendly policies include no bailiffs to recover debt, universal free school meals for primary-age children and a free meals pilot for secondary-school students. Meals are provided to all school students, not just low-income families, … Read more
The info on this page is out of date and has been updated here The government passed the Coronavirus Act, which suspends Care Act legal obligations and other duties. This is supposed to be temporary and kept under review. We need to know our rights and what the official guidance says about the support services … Read more
We’ve been protesting against Greenwich Council’s plan to increase care charges and squeeze another £1.6 million from disabled people’s benefits, since July 2019 when we sent an Open Letter to councillors and for the consultation. But that consultation about charges never mentioned also cutting £8 million from adult health and social care. This includes “reablement”, … Read more
Sue Ferguson* in Liverpool writes: Liverpool’s Mayor, Joe Anderson, has stated that he will refuse to implement any future cuts after it was revealed that a fresh round of pain is planned for the City of Liverpool. The Echo reported: “With services stretched to the maximum in the city, Mayor Anderson has now said enough … Read more