I am totally humbled by the generosity of friends and strangers who have contributed towards my short-break in Florida. The GoFundMe page is currently at £5,825 and I am so pleased to prove Margaret Thatcher wrong when she said that there is no such thing as society. There clearly is, as I have been supported […]
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I have copied and pasted the following article from the BBC News website, as it highlights an important issue facing disabled people across Wales. You can access the original article by clicking here. I am facing similar challenges, as even though I have been lucky enough to access a wheelchair through the NHS, I feel
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Unbelievably, I am writing an update for the #SaveWILG campaign – something that I have been working on since November 2016. After highlighting the campaign on national television, newspapers, radio and across social media, I was delighted when the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services visited my comrades and I back in February 2019,
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The following article was taken from the Luke Clements site and was written by Ann James. *** February 18, 2020 The Deputy Minister’s update statement on the Welsh Independent Living Grant[1] (WILG) is particularly welcome because it acknowledges the risk to the independence,choice and control of disabled people in Wales unless the Welsh Government enables people in
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TITLE: Welsh Independent Living Grant (WILG) – Update on Independent Care Assessments DATE: 13 February 2020 BY: Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services It is paramount that people’s ability to live independently is not compromised by changes to the way their care and support is arranged and provided. Last July, and
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Many thanks to everyone for all the birthday wishes – it means a lot and is much appreciated. I can’t believe twelve months have passed so quickly. I am proud to have published Dancing on Thin Ice – a selection of Tanka and Haiku poems in the last year. It was a year that began with
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As many of my regular readers will know, I have spent the last 5 years campaigning to protect independent living for disabled with high support needs across Wales. In February 2019, we made a break through and the Welsh Government agreed to offer independent assessments to all recipients of the Welsh Independent Living Grant who
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WILG recipients throughout Wales are starting to get anxious. Christmas is just around the corner, and still we are no clearer about what the future holds. Some of us have had our independent assessments through ICS, but this reassessment process seems to have run in to problems, due to illness on the part of some
I have received an update from the Welsh Government, on their efforts to provide independent assessments to all WILG recipients who requested one. It read as follows: All 14 local authorities who have former WILG recipients who have requested an independent assessment now have a data sharing agreement in place with ICS. As a result
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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
