I have shared a letter below written by my friend and comrade Sheila Meadows OBE who started the fight to support disabled people with high care and support needs long before I appeared on the scene. Together we have been fighting for disabled people’s rights for over five years now. She is responding to the […]
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TAKEN FROM PLAID WRECSAM BLOG The case for disabled people wanting to maintain their independent living was raised in the Senedd today with questions to First Minister Carwyn Jones. The Welsh Independent Living Grant is due to come to an end next year and responsibility for ensuring disabled people can live independently will be transferred
I have received the following letter from Huw Irranca-Davies AM, Minister for Children and Social Care following our meeting last month. I was disappointed with my performance at the meeting and now I am disappointed with the letter that the Minister has sent. It is the sort of letter we’d expect to get from a
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I don’t want to have to write the following, but it needs saying as Wrexham Council and the Welsh Government are failing in their duties of care to disabled residents such as myself. I am not continuing to struggle while local councillors vote to give themselves a pay rise and Government officials just will not listen
Over the past few weeks I have been speaking with the good folk at Plaid Cymru, who have now been selected to ask a question about WILG to the First Minister at the Senedd on Tuesday at 13:30. The question has been tabled by Llyr Gruffydd AM and is composed as follows: Will the First Minister make a statement
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A coalition of disabled people’s organisations has today written to the Prime Minister urging her to meet with them to discuss the deteriorating quality of life experienced by millions of disabled people in the UK. The call comes exactly six months since the United Nations’ damning report on the UK Government’s implementation of the Convention
I am requesting help on Social Media to get the message across to Assembly Members across Wales that there is still time to reverse the awful decision to close WILG and transfer all responsibilities for Independent Living to local authorities. A list of AM Twitter handles can be found below along with a suggested Tweet and electronic
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Throughout the 2017/18 football season I will be contributing to the Wrexham AFC matchday programme. I will be penning a feature called Memory Match, a look back at classic Wrexham games from the past that I will share in this blog over the coming months. This is the third successive season that I have been writing the
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What my #SaveWILG campaign is in need of is a theme tune. I hit upon this idea while watching TOTP2 in bed the other night. Tears for Fears were featured in this addition from 1985 and they were preforming their classic hit Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Without permission, I have took it upon myself
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Way back in 2013 I found a time to create a few YouTube videos that I would like to share with you now. This was before I began my activism work when I could find time to express myself in whatever way I wanted. One of these videos is a promotional film for Every Silver
