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A year after it was introduced, Disability Rights UKs legal partners, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, say that budget cuts and a lack of compliance from local authorities are making The Care Act less effective than hoped.

A year after it was introduced, Disability Rights UKs legal partners, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, say that budget cuts and a lack of compliance from local authorities are making The Care Act less effective than hoped. When it was brought in last April, the Care Act 2014 was billed as the biggest change to adult social care for more than 20 years, which aimed to give disabled adults and their carers a greater understanding of their rights.

17 Apr 2016
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Transport for All (TfA) has been championing the cause of accessible transport in the capital for over two decades. Whilst progress has been made, still today disabled and older people have to restrict their lives or even become housebound because they are failed by inaccessible transport services. Our mission is to change this and win a transport system that all of London's citizens can use with freedom and Independence.

19 Apr 2016
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Disability benefit cuts, the Met Police – and the terror threat

Official training course highlights terror threat from man with mental illness angry at benefit cuts Designed to enable frontline staff to prevent people becoming terrorists Training relates to Channel programme, which has seen hundreds of children referred to it By Chaminda Jayanetti

20 Apr 2016
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