Now, disabled people could be moved to care homes to save money. This policy will deny disabled people’s rights to receive the support they need based on personal preference, and to live independently at home with choice and control over that support. itv.com/news/westcount…

This is a really good explainer of the new benefit announcements (and I think clears up some misreporting around disabled claimants):

L Hmltn James Felton It absolutely goes further than that; this is just one aspect I wanted to tweet about. I wrote a book, Crippled, about the wider picture: amazon.co.uk/Crippled-Auste…

I’m tired of the Tories targeting benefit claimants. I’m tired of explaining to people who should know better why it is both immoral and illogical. I’m tired of the ease with which the rich and healthy target those who weren’t blessed with their advantage. I’m tired.

A paid carer doing min 35 hrs a wk would receive £364.70. That’s 10.42 p/hr

Those carers given status unpaid (& all admin, advocacy etc.) receive £76.75. That’s £2.19 p/hr

Only, they don’t just do 35 hrs a week they often do 90 plus hrs a week. That’s 85 p/hr.

Why is this ok?

In 2003 I was a world famous TV presenter. But my spine collapsed & I had to stop work, needing major surgery to keep me alive. During the next few years there was no way I could work & Diane had to care for me. She gave up a £500/week job to claim £50/wk carers allowance 1

Disabled mums are doubly discriminated against: denied Care Act support to look after our children, and denied benefits security -- cut off for 'failure to attend' an interview, or stuck in DWP systemic delays. On Monday we protested at DWP vs harsher work capability test #WCA

We won! -- disabled people/women, other passengers and RMT station staff TOGETHER. Let's keep going for fully accessible affordable public transport that's fully staffed! Congrats to NFBUK and Association of British Commuters. TfL take note!

Monday: Protest vs DWP. 62% of people in destitution are disabled or in chronic ill-health say Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Deliberate #WCA #PIP #UC benefit refusals, sanctions, deductions and delays are starving destitute disabled/single mums & children. *NO* to Hunt and DWP hiking up sanctions.

📢Disabled people are paying “a tax on disability” by being forced to fund soaring care charges out of their benefits as the cost of living pushes care users into financial crisis. 7 in 10 people referred to Trussell Trust food banks are disabled Claire Holland Jim Dickson🇺🇦

In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, I don’t know how I will be able to buy things Donald needs if his disability benefits are taken away. I’m worried about what this means for our future I was hoping to retire. I’m 64, and I’m tired #UnpaidCarersMatter Cllr Kieron Williams

We support Care4Christine in their fight for Christine detained against her will by Norfolk County Council. This is abuse of the Care Act. She has mental capacity. Chronic illness is no basis for forced residential care #Care4Christine #ShameonNCC #FreeChristineLee thecanary.co/uk/2023/10/20/…

Norfolk County Council
How can you promote person centered care and promoting at home care is best and then deprive this lady of the very thing that this lady wants...and needs.
And that's to be in her specially adapted flat...her home...where she belongs..to have a quality of life.

My column from last year’s Conservative party conference feels very similar to their current energy.

Disabled mothers say no to harsher benefit sanctions and back-to-work agenda in #Budget2023 -- we're entitled to benefits and support by councils! Against #UniversalCredit benefit cut-offs by computer where we are blamed and lose our children! Support not Separation

It took footage of actual breaking and entering for this to happen. 😒.
news.sky.com/story/ofgem-te…

Want to know more about discrimination and abuse of power by social workers? Hear what mothers and children have to say. BASW Jackie Long Channel 4 News Josh MacAlister WinVisible (women with disabilities) supportnotseparation.blog/2023/01/27/dis…

“Anna” has a moderate learning disability and has had three children taken into care.

She says - and campaigners agree - she wasn’t given enough support to keep them and the odds were stacked against her from the start:

With Support not Separation today picketting the #familycourt . Take away our poverty NOT our children. Remembering Philippa Day, Elaine Morrall, Jodey Whiting & other disabled single mums whose children were left without their mother when her benefits were cut. #mumsrights .