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Welfare reform activists join forces with health bill campaigners

10/03/2012 – 9:00 am

Disabled people campaigning against the government’s welfare reforms have linked up with activists fighting its health and social care bill.
More than 100 activists from disabled people’s campaigning organisations such as Disabled People Against Cuts, Mad Pride and WinVisible met with groups such as Boycott Workfare, the Social Work Action Network and Taxpayers Against Poverty to [...]

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Death sentence hangs over ILF as doors are closed to new members

25/12/2010 – 10:43 am

Campaigners have attacked the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) permanently to all new applicants.
Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people, announced this week that ILF – the government-funded trust which helps 21,000 disabled people with the highest support needs to live independently – would no longer accept new members.
It also seems [...]

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