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Posts from the ‘council craziness’ Category

0April 8, 2024Ealing: Disabled Teenager Bedbound For A Month Due To Broken Lift

0September 12, 2023Anger Over Surrey County Councils School Transport Failures

0September 11, 2023Young Autistic People Still Dying Despite Coroner Warnings Over Care

0August 16, 2023Swindon: ‘Get A Grip’ On Pavement Parking, Say Sight Charities

0June 6, 2023Terminally Ill Shropshire Woman In 12-Week Blue Badge Wait

0March 21, 2023York Blue Badge Parking Ban Protest At Lib Dem Conference

0January 20, 2023Fix Relationship With SEND Parents, Bristol City Council Told

0September 22, 2022The Family Of Six In A One-Bedroom Flat Due To Inaccessible Social Housing

0September 2, 2022‘My Daughter In Wheelchair Was Abandoned By School Taxis’

0June 8, 2022Chelmsford Woman Declined Guide Dog Due To Local Paths

0March 8, 2022Charity Says Housing System Fails People With MND

0December 9, 2021Autism: ‘Free Nursery Care Not Available To My Son’

0August 25, 2021Social Care Charges: Disabled And Vulnerable Adults Hit By Steep Rises

1January 7, 2021Blue Badge Permit ‘Shocking Disparity’ Revealed

0September 17, 2020‘No Confidence’ In Birmingham’s Home-To-School Transport

1August 5, 2020Autism In Children: ‘Many Families Face Council Discrimination’

0February 12, 2020EHRC Taking Legal Action Over Autistic People In Psychiatric Units

0February 11, 2020CP Girl Homeschooled Because Of Lack Of Disabled Toilets

0January 21, 2020Tribunal Battles Over Support For Disabled Children Treble In Five Years

0November 28, 2019‘I Was Put Into Care Home For Elderly At 46’

3September 20, 2019Family Faced £10K Bill To Move Away From Disabled Daughter’s Rapist

1August 21, 2019Time For A Social Care Emergency Says Anonymous Social Worker

0June 11, 2019Continuing Care Funding Is A Scandal Say Families

0May 28, 2019SEND Pupils To Stage Funding Protests

0May 20, 2019Too Many Children With LD And Autism In Mental Health Hospitals

0April 9, 2019Disabled Grenfell Survivor Was In Hotel Without Accessible Bathroom

1April 1, 2019So Desperate She Swallowed A Toothbrush- Long Term Life In ATUs

4March 13, 2019Council told vulnerable young person with mental health problems they could cope with homelessness as well as a ‘normal’ person

1January 22, 2019Seven Benefit Assessors Convicted Of Housing Benefit Fraud

0January 7, 2019SEN Support ‘Taking Too Long’ In England

3January 2, 2019Councils Failing To Take Action Against Blue Badge Misuse

0December 4, 2018SEN Provision A National Scandal Says Ofsted

1March 15, 2018Lambeth Council, How Is This Wheelchair Access?

2March 13, 2018Councils Refuse To Hand Over Ashes To Families After ‘Pauper Funerals’

0August 9, 2017EXCLUSIVE #Disability Discrimination means Son is removed from Home?

1August 3, 2017Disabled People Trapped At Home With No Wheelchairs

1January 10, 2017Harrow Council: Continue To Fund Welfare Benefits Team For Disabled People

0August 15, 2016Pupils With Disabilities And SEN Lack Support, Finds Poll

0August 11, 2016Birmingham Council Wants Nicholas, 4, To Get The Public Bus To School

0August 2, 2016No Help For Fred When He Lost DLA And Became Homeless

2June 8, 2016Disabled People Are Losing Blue Badges- Because They Can’t Drive

1June 6, 2016Disabled Man Faces 12 Month Wait For A Bath After Hoist Removed On Health And Safety Grounds

1April 26, 2016Forced to choose between a home and a job

1April 20, 2016Nicky Clark Had To Declare Daughter Emily Homeless To Get Her Appropriate Support

1December 29, 2015Long Wait For Accessible Local Authority Housing Says Charity

4November 24, 2015Benefit Claimant? You’re Too Poor To Live In Brighton

5November 10, 2015Disabled Woman Tells Victoria Derbyshire Show She Is Scared Because Of Social Care Crisis

3October 6, 2015Disabled Toddler Sleeping In Cage Because Council Refuse To Pay For Special Bed

3September 24, 2015Allegations Of Social Cleansing As Disabled Man Set To Be Evicted From Sweets Way Estate

1September 17, 2015Number of SEN pupils plummets after abolition of statements‏

6August 24, 2015Homeless Pensioner Forced To Live In His Car While Battling Cancer Because His Housing Is Not A Priority

0August 4, 2015Travelling 200 Miles To See Daughter In Mental Health Care

3April 22, 2015Wheelchair User Adam Lotun Suing London Council Over Inaccessible Polling Station

4February 19, 2015Why Are People With Mental Health Conditions Living In Squalor?

1February 10, 2015Disabled And Elderly People Auctioned Online By Councils In ‘Cattle Market’ For Care Services

3December 6, 2014How Many More James Knights Are There?

0December 1, 2014Three Hundred Thousand Disabled People Living In Unsuitable Homes

0November 27, 2014NHS Islington: #BringStephenHome

3November 24, 2014MOBILITY SCOOTER USERS: FIGHT BACK AGAINST COUNCIL “NOT US, GOV” POTHOLE DAMAGE DUCKING LETTERS

0November 3, 2014Councils ‘Deluged’ By Applications For DoLS

4September 29, 2014Disabled Girl ‘Slept In Dog Cage’ Because Council Wouldn’t Provide Bed

6September 15, 2014Council Tells Arm Amputee To ‘Lose Another Limb’ To Qualify For Blue Badge

0August 26, 2014Transport Services “A Disaster Waiting To Happen” Says Mother

6July 27, 2014Disabled People In Britain Face ‘Hidden Housing Crisis’ Finds Charity

5May 19, 2014A Benefit Claimant’s Open Letter To David Cameron

1May 16, 2014Councils Reject 1637 DHP Claims By Disabled People

2May 7, 2014CP Man’s Parents Told To Give Him Physio Themselves

2April 16, 2014Easter Play Schemes For Disabled Children Axed Due To Cuts

3April 14, 2014Case Of Possible Inherited EDS Mistaken For Child Abuse

0March 18, 2014Autistic Man’s Stairlift Row

8March 10, 2014Councils Using, Or Planning To Use, LIE DETECTOR TESTS On Benefit Claimants

4February 26, 2014Newcastle Council Attempting To Bribe Tenants Away From #BedroomTax Tribunals

0February 20, 2014Rise In Children On Adult Mental Health Wards

1February 14, 2014Claire Lally Asked Her Local Council For Wheelchair Access To Her Home. She Got This.

1February 12, 2014Non-Disabled Tenants Prioritised For DHPs Finds Survey #BedroomTax

1February 4, 2014Councils Don’t Pay Enough For Home Care Finds BBC Investigation

6January 22, 2014Disabled Brothers Evicted From Council House Days After Mum, 90, Goes Into Care

5January 12, 2014ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG HEALTH BOARD: KEEP CLAIRE, WHO HAS AUTISM, IN WALES AND NOT SEND HER TO NORTHAMPTON AGAINST HER WISHES.

2January 8, 2014Panorama: I Want My Baby Back

1December 2, 2013The Elderly Dying Thirsty In Britain’s Care Homes

2November 29, 2013No Suitable Home For Brain Injured Gran, 82- Now Hospital Wants To Evict Her

4November 2, 2013South Ayrshire Council Join Knowsley Housing Trust In #BedroomTax Children’s Services Threats

2October 15, 2013#JusticeForJames Oxfordshire County Council: Don’t Make James And Others With LD Homeless

4October 11, 2013Veronica Kenning- Wheelchair User, Dying Of Cancer, And Facing #BedroomTax Eviction

0October 10, 2013Brigend LEA: Let Ashley Go To School

3October 8, 2013David Weir Can’t Get Accessible Council House

0October 7, 2013LCD Attacks ‘Flying’ Care Visits

0October 6, 2013Manchester Learning Disabled Man’s Benefits Cut Over The Phone

0September 1, 2013Hull Teenager With Asperger’s Sent To Cheshire Unit Because Beds Have Been Cut

2July 25, 2013Homeless Learning Disabled Woman Forced To Live In Tent

3July 19, 2013A Case Of Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome Being Mistaken For Child Abuse

0May 22, 2013Worcester Teenager Seeking Judicial Review Of Care Plans

0April 29, 2013High Court Rejects Barnet ‘easyCouncil’ Legal Challenge

0April 23, 2013Kent Lacks Special School Places Finds Report

0March 27, 2013Cuts: ‘I Can’t Afford To Heat The Whole House’

0March 27, 2013Cuts Will Cost Disabled Claimants £28BN Over 5 Years

1March 26, 2013The Human Cost Of Daycare Centres

1March 19, 2013Barnet Council ‘Broke The Law’ Over Contract, Court Hears

1March 19, 2013Judicial Review Of Barnet’s ‘easyCouncil’ Plans Due After Disabled Woman Fears For Her Life

0March 1, 2013Victoria Derbyshire Interviews Mark Neary