The Big Care Debate

There's a new green paper on disability provision in the UK, with its consultation period due to end on 15th November. This includes proposals to cut disability benefits and pass the money freed up on to local authorities, thus meaning that a certain amount of the claimant's money will be spent on whatever they can persuade their social worker they need. They're also discussing introducing means testing for disability-related benefits. Because that isn't going to put extra layers of bureaucracy and potential inefficiency in between diasabled people and the resources they need or anything like that, and it isn't going to compromise their ability to live independently at all. Oh no.

Most of the disability-related charities have come out against this green paper, and are calling for some strongly worded letters to be written to MPs, and some strongly-worded feedback to be left on the consultation website. There's a summary of the campaign here, if you want to get involved.