Daily Archives: 26/03/2011

Funding cuts put future of self-advocacy movement in doubt

26/03/2011 – 12:17 pm

Serious concerns have been raised about the future of the UK’s self-advocacy movement, with four-fifths of organisations under threat of closure, according to a leading disabled activist.
Andrew Lee, director of People First (Self Advocacy), said that 80 per cent of his organisation’s members could be forced to close, or had already done so, because of [...]

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Questions raised over council’s equality impact refusal

26/03/2011 – 12:14 pm

A local authority has refused to explain why it will not release an assessment of how its savage spending cuts will affect disabled people and other minority groups.
Members of Lambeth council pushed through a package of spending cuts last month, including a decision not to renew annual contracts worth £118,000 with People First Lambeth (PFL).
Without [...]

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