An Oxford-based advocacy charity run by and for people with learning disabilities is the latest winner of a Big Society Award, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. [Read more...]
Oxford charity wins Prime Minister’s Big Society Award
October 25, 2013 by
The day Britain changes: welfare reforms and coalition cuts take effect
April 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
David Cameron leaves No 10, Downing Street: many of his government’s radical cuts and reforms are due to be introduced this week. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters [Read more...]
PMQs: Cameron and Miliband clash over ‘bedroom tax’
February 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed over housing benefit changes which could see some getting less.
From April families deemed to have too much living space by councils will receive a reduced payment.
Mr Miliband said this was a “bedroom tax” [Read more...]
Cameron ‘calls time’ on Labour’s equality impact assessments
November 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
David Cameron has promised to “call time” on official tests to ensure that government policies comply with equality laws. ”Equality impact assessments” were introduced by Labour to make sure officials took account of disability, gender and race in their decisions. [Read more...]
Dementia care is ‘where cancer was in the 1960s’ says health minister, as Cameron pledges to train one million volunteers to help those with the condition
November 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Dementia is as much of a taboo as cancer was in the 1960s, according to the Health Secretary. One in three adults will develop the illness but we ‘just don’t like talking about it’, Jeremy Hunt said yesterday. He admitted that the way society deals with dementia is ‘shockingly bad’, adding: ‘We need to change attitudes.’ It came as Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans [Read more...]
PMQs: Cameron on disability benefit and universal credit
October 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The prime minister said the overall spending on disability benefit – as it converts to the universal credit – would see spending rise from £1.35bn last year to £1.45bn in 2015. David Cameron said all current recipients would be “fully cash protected by a transitional scheme”. He spoke of the plan to give more money to “the severely disabled children” and a lower amount for less disabled people, which “showed the right values and the right approach”. Watch the video here
Vitalise survey reveals David Cameron’s hopes for a Paralympic legacy may be short-lived
October 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
People with disabilities and carers are concerned that wave of positivity will not endure, finds disability charity Vitalise.
In the wake of David Cameron’s Conservative Party Conference speech and only five weeks on from the London Paralympics, a new survey of people with disabilities and carers has found that the Paralympic legacy may not be as far-reaching as hoped.
Even though 82% of the people with disabilities and carers surveyed felt that the public was more aware and open-minded towards them as a result of the Paralympics, 40% expressed worries that any positive change would not last. [Read more...]
