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My memories of Seàn McGovern and the Remploy struggle

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Seàn McGovern 27 January 1957 – 6 May 2020 My memories of Seàn and the Remploy struggle by Claire Glasman, WinVisible expanded from the Morning Star Seàn and Claire outside Parliament circa 1999, with Kate Adams from Incapacity Action.  The placard says “Money for life not bombs”.  We were protesting about Blair’s government investing in … Read more

Costs of disability

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Scope’s report ‘The Disability Price Tag 2019‘ shows how disability benefits are much too low to live on (as well as the DWP cutting off and sanctioning people like Jodey Whiting). At the same time, councils and other authorities are wildly undercounting people’s disability expenses, and making people pay more charges for homecare and support services from … Read more