End the HIV Crisis in Lewisham this World AIDS Day’s theme is end inequalities, end pandemics and end the corrosive stigma
Tag Archives: Disability
End Benefit Sanctions Now Say Disability Campaigners
Cllr Alan Hall has joined campaigners, disabled activists, charities and trade unionists calling for an end to benefit sanctions now. Inclusion London who support over 70 Deaf and Disabled Organisations working across every London borough lead the campaign. They say: “We are calling for sanctions to be abolished for Deaf and Disabled people as a …
Continue reading “End Benefit Sanctions Now Say Disability Campaigners”
Disability Rights and Help the NHS #SaveSocialCare
Disability Groups are concerned that the Coronavirus Bill due to be rushed through parliament in the next few days will cost the country more by putting pressure on the NHS by curtailing community care services for people with disabilities. Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy, Disability Rights UK said: “Our key concern is that the Bill …
Continue reading “Disability Rights and Help the NHS #SaveSocialCare”
Damian in High Court over ‘SEND Crisis’
SEND Crisis in the High Court as Government challenged
DWP ‘spin’ in the Metro challenged
The Disability Benefits Consortium, DBS consisting of over 80 charities alongside Trade Unions and disability campaigners are calling on the Department for Work and Pensions to end their public relations campaign about Universal Credit which appears in the freesheet Metro newspaper. In a letter to the Advertising Standards Authority, the DBS have said: “The advert …
SEND National Crisis: Damian told to ‘Get On With It’
SEND Crisis campaign hits Downing Street as cuts bite. Lewisham Council loses over £15 million