If re-elected, I will start negotiations with Whitehall for more devolved control of benefits, including disability benefits.

We need to stop desperate politicians playing divisive politics with people’s lives.

Another day, another attack on #disabled people and on support with their cost of living. This time plans to replace #PIP with vouchers and even more #DWP surveillance. Just in time for local elections, in the hope that cruelty sells? #CostOfLivingCrisis
bbc.com/news/articles/…

Last month…

A United Nations committee found that Conservative Govt welfare reforms since 2010 had resulted in “grave or systematic violations” of disabled peoples' rights

Today, Rishi’s Govt announces an idea to take away their cash and issue vouchers instead

Vile.

Maybe it’s best we don’t let them drag us out of the ECHR, ey?

Article here:

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Standard type #NHS phased returns to work for people with #LongCovid NHS Employers ? I keep hearing this! Why? We want to keep people in jobs where possible don’t we ?
Please see the excellent guidance from SOM on RTW for #pwLC
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WorkingAndNotWorkingWithLongCovid crr

WESTMINSTER HALL DEBATE ON #MEcfs

As promised please find below an open letter everyone can sign asking Sajid Javid to raise #BringMillieHome #SaveCarlasLife & more during 1 May's debate

We will send it on 30 April. So get involved and get signing. LINK with a CW - suicide:…

BREAKING: Our client Ellen Clifford has permission to challenge the DWP over a consultation on tightening benefit reforms.

“The government needs to listen to Deaf & Disabled people before imposing reforms that would change the lives of so many people for the worse.' Big Issue

Here is our joint press release with Long Covid Support 🌍 & Covid Action (Now!) sent out after the most recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) data (for England &Scotland not Wales)
“Our government consistently fails to consider Long Covid when discussing the long-term health of the country”

longcovidsos.org/post/why-is-th…

This👇 tells us that: Almost a third of UK #LongCovid cases date to first Covid waves (before vaccines, for those at the back), almost another third is the past year (without vaccines, for those at the back). In short, #Covid keeps infecting people and leaving them long-term ill.

Tens of thousands of chilren and hundreds of thousands of working age people are chronically ill after contracting #Covid . Instead of scapegoating them for having become ill, shouldn't the #PrimeMinister , his government & UK Health Security Agency be doing everything to cut #Covid IsAirborne spread?

What are we doing to our children? I don’t think the general public are at all aware of the risk of longer term consequences to #SARSCoV2 infections. The public did not consent to this. Consent should be informed.

#COVIDIsAirborne #CleanAirNow #LongCovidKids

The latest ONS data shows that Long Covid remains a serious issue - we urgently need to find better ways to prevent and treat.

Read more on my blog post
open.substack.com/pub/christinap…

“If five years ago, we were to imagine that a completely new disease, which for some can cause medium- to long-term, and potentially disabling symptoms in approximately 3% of the population, which is what the new figures suggest, we would be enormously concerned.”
#LongCovid

It's being absolutely buried that the UN ruled the UK gov to be failing disabled people again thecanary.co/global/world-a…

Victor Adebowale, 'Britain does not have a sick note culture' #BBCQT Victor Adebowale

'There's an election coming.. The gov gets tired.. They're casting around for something to say that will keep their base.. The language they use is cruel'

'You talk about 850,000 sick.. 2 million…

Oh dear God, Victor Adebowale I love Victor Adebowale. He mentioned #LongCovid on BBC Question Time.
No one mentions our disability on television. If you're out there Victor, thank you. This means so much!
Long Covid has taken over four years of my life, and there's no plan!

Not UK main newspaper, not BBC News (UK), ITV or Sky News reported that the UN just found the UK in violation of the rights of #disabled people shorturl.at/bnQW8 Yet days of blanket coverage of #SickNoteSunak 's toxic speech about ill & disabled workers bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

We must be given the opportunity to question #PM and the assertions in his speech, which was so devoid of evidence