The following is an article written by John Pring on his excellent Disability News Service website. This can be accessed by clicking here. I have been put in a difficult position following the publication of the Welsh Government’s new framework on independent living – Action On Disability – The Right to Independent Living. I have […]
By visiting Senedd.tv and watching the Petitions Committee meeting from September 17, you can listen to probably the final discussion of the #SaveWILG campaign by the committee. Many thanks to the Petitions Committee for all the time and work put into considering the petition. I am glad to report that I received an email from
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Below is a press release from Disability Wales on the launch of ‘Action on Disability: The Right to Independent Living’. My views on this framework are not overwhelmingly positive, but it doesn’t really affect me that much. I will look more closely at this in future to see how it will affect my disabled brothers
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This morning I received an email from Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, outlining his party’s approach to the Brexit shenanigans. I thought I would share this below. I have lots going on at the moment, as I am still waiting on my WILG assessment and am in the midst of a staffing crisis.
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I have found a new hero. John Callahan is someone to admire and revere. I have only just been introduced to his work, through the film ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’, which was sent to me by my friend Ted Eames. After sharing this with my followers on Facebook, another of my good
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The following article has been written by John Pring and appears on his excellent Disability News Service website which can be found by clicking on this link. *** The Labour party is on a “collision course” with the equality and human rights watchdog and the United Nations because of its failure to accept the need
I received the following email to inform me that the Petitions Committee at the Senedd will be discussing my petition to Save the Welsh Independent Living Grant on Tuesday 17th September at 9.00. This may be one of the final times that the petition is considered by the committee in question, considering how far we
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I am up to my neck in negotiations with my local authority over emergency payments for my depleted Direct Payments account. It has taken a beating over the past six months, as I have been using it to fund the 24/7 support that I so desperately need. I had saved quite a sum to be
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqo50LGQd_8 This is a brilliant song. It was in my head at the weekend after I watched TOTP 1988. However, as with a number of songs recently, I have been unable to hear and appreciate the actual tune now that I listen to it again. It seems that as Friedreich’s Ataxia eats away at my
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The following article appears on the DPAC website, was written by Mark Dunk and Paula Peters and can be viewed here. *** Boris Johnson’s hubris and scheming in his attempt to bounce the country into leaving the EU with no-deal has brought about the prospect of an early General election. While many are wary of
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