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• Shut away and ignored: thousands of disabled adults are at the frontier of the human rights struggle | John Harris

  19-01-2025 15:06
  
  When you attend your local choir or yoga class, just stop and think – where are the disabled adults?In what passes for the national conversation, our social care crisis tends to be reduced to a handful of factors so familiar they now feel like cliches. Just about all of them are centred on older people, the pressures on financially broken local councils from an ageing society and people having to sell their homes to pay for residential care. All these things, of course, are urgent and huge
  
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• Is this the way to fix social care in England?

  19-01-2025 11:00
  
  As yet another review is launched, a single council is offering an alternative to rationing support for the most needyFlorence Mahon spent a decade running around after peers at the House of Lords. As head housekeeper, she was responsible for problems such as cleaning up messes or sorting out broken lamps, until ill-health forced her to retire in her 50s.Her eyes gleam a little as she talks about which of their lordships she liked and which ones she didn’t. “I didn’t want to go
  
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