Category Archives: disability

Care should be the same wherever a person lives

February 7, 2012   Carers, disability, social workers

Supreme Court to hear social care cost arguments

 Lawyers representing four charities will say the law has been misinterpreted with regards to social care

The Supreme Court is to hear a case challenging the way councils in England can consider their finances when assessing people for social care.

A severely disabled man – known as KM – and four charities will say care should be the same wherever a person lives.

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Welfare Reform Bill is crucial for the sick, disabled and carers writes Jenny Willott MP

February 6, 2012   benefits, Carers, disability

Jenny Willott MP writes… The Welfare Reform Bill – What’s happened on ESA?

Benefits are not an easy subject to get your head around: we have a benefits system with enough acronyms, assessments, taper rates and tax credits to make your head spin. That’s why this Government is finally undertaking a hugely important and long-overdue reform of benefits.

Universal Credit will replace the complicated mix of tax credits, JSA, ESA, Housing Benefit and so on with one simple benefit. And the Universal Credit is why the Welfare Reform Bill is so crucial. It will revolutionise the way we support those who are unemployed, disabled, sick or caring for a loved one and is why we have to support the Bill and ensure it becomes law.

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MPs Reverse Lords’ Welfare Reform Defeats

February 2, 2012   Carers, disability

A showdown between MPs and peers looms after the Commons overturned seven Lords defeats on the Government’s welfare reforms.

MPs voted by big majorities to restore some of the most controversial measures in the Welfare Reform Bill, with a majority of 82 for the controversial cap on benefits.

But in one vote – on the so-called “bedroom tax” – the coalition’s majority slumped to 42, as 14 Liberal Democrat MPs and two Tories, Gordon Henderson and Andrew Percy, rebelled.

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