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Breakthrough’ Lords report gives boost to campaign for free care
A new parliamentary report that calls on the government to introduce free personal care has been branded a “major breakthrough” for campaigns led by disabled people and their grassroots organisations for a national independent living service.
The report, by the House of Lords economic affairs committee, has called for the government to inject an immediate £8 billion into social care in England.
But the committee’s report, Social Care Funding: Time to End a National Scandal, also says the government should move over the next five years towards the introduction of free personal care, funded mostly by general taxation.
It is only calling for those with substantial and critical needs to receive free care, and it says this should only be offered for support with washing, dressing and cooking (personal care), but not for areas such as housework and shopping and other areas of independent living.
‘Breakthrough’ Lords report gives boost to campaign for free care
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WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’
Detailed evidence from disabled people has shown that disability benefit assessment reports are still riddled with distortions, twisted facts and ignorance, say grassroots campaigners.
WOWCampaign launched its Assessing the Assessors campaign earlier this year to highlight the continued flaws within the assessment regimes for personal independence payment (PIP) and employment and support allowance (ESA).
But WOW also wanted to give disabled people a chance to express their “pent up anger and frustration” with the ordeals they were being forced to undergo at the hands of government contractors Atos, Capita and Maximus.
It designed a questionnaire that disabled people could fill in to describe their assessment experiences.
WOW has already received about 50 questionnaires and is hoping for even more responses.
They will eventually be turned into a report, which will be sent to MPs.
WOW questionnaire responses ‘show assessors are still lying’
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