Category Archives: disability

This cut threatens to push many disabled children back below the poverty line

June 19, 2011   Carers, carersweek, disability

Parents of disabled children could lose £1,400 in welfare shakeup

Controversial reforms will also cut benefit for 450,000 disabled tenants in social housing, according to leading charity

 

The welfare reforms will plunge thousands of families below the poverty line, according to the Children’s Society.
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Cuts in services hit carers hard

June 10, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts

A carer sharing what things are like when you become a carer. No one knows unless it happens to them.

Cuts in services hit carers hard
Published on Friday 10 June 2011 08:47

I am an official carer for my wife, who is registered as severely disabled. For this I get no Carer’s Allowance whatsoever. I am 76 and under duress, doing the best I can like thousands of others unpaid carers countrywide.

I asked Social Services for a stand-in shower to be installed as I have to help my wife into and out of the bath.

The SS gave me another number to ring. This number gave another and so on.

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Miliband and Cameron back cross-party talks on care

June 8, 2011   Carers, disability

Miliband and Cameron back cross-party talks on care

Ed Miliband says the scenes of abuse filmed by Panorama at the Winterbourne View care home “shame our country”

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he wants cross-party talks to resolve the problem of funding adult social care.

Mr Miliband said he wanted parties to work together so people could “grow old with dignity”.

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