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Peer’s bill would fast-track rights to portability

28/05/2011 – 9:00 am

A disabled peer is set to introduce a private members’ bill that would ensure disabled people do not have to wait until 2015 for new legal rights around their care and support.
The government looks likely to give disabled people new rights to ensure some continuity of care when they move to a different local authority [...]

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Social care reforms ‘must deliver for disabled people’

27/05/2011 – 10:12 am

The government will need to “deliver real results” for disabled people when it introduces new social care legislation next year, according to a leading disabled figure.
The Law Commission’s long-awaited report on the reform of adult social care law in England and Wales, published last week, recommended a “single, clear, modern statute and code of practice [...]

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