disability, data protection, activism and other such
My ex-carer is being deported to Malawi. She’s claiming asylum as she is a lesbian; society in Malawi is strongly anti-gay, so much so that last year the government introduced a new law specifically against lesbianism. She faces returning to a forced marriage to an abusive husband, and lifelong denial of her sexuality on threat…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has come in for somewhat of a bashing recently. But I didn’t think they would lie as well. In response to a recent documentary exposing care home abuse, CQC said the following in their media statement: CQC carries out an unannounced inspection of every care and nursing home in England…
Amongst the various other things that annoyed me about yesterday’s shameful treatment of disabled people courtesy of the Lords (et tu, Lib Dems?) was a vomit-inducing self-congratulatory homily by Lord Low, who spearheaded this (admittedly influential) report on the withdrawal of mobility allowance for people in residential care. Readers may remember that this nasty proposal…