“At this open meeting we will be bringing together disabled people, family, carers and allies to co-ordinate our fight back against the increasing threats to choice and control for disabled people.
We will be focusing on disabled people’s rights to Independent Living and the systemic failings that are putting those rights at risk.
Meeting themes (Agenda coming soon)
Bristol’s proposed ‘Fair and Affordable’ care policy and its wider repercussions.
The immorality and unlawfulness of social care policy and practice nationally.
A pathway for fighting back together including an alternative ‘People’s Policy’ for Bristol and beyond.
A positive future vision for social care including a National Independent Living Service.
Presenters
Mark Harrison, Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (rofa) Steering Group. I look forward to contributing to this important meeting.
Anna Severwright, navigator of social care and co-convenor of Social Care Future.
Don O’Neal, disability activist and author of The Lack of Care Act 2014: Service users’ perspectives of a failing adult social care system.
Charli Thompson, disabled activist and advocate of the right to wellbeing according to the Care Act and UNCRPD. Member of the Campaign for Real Care.
Lucy Series, an expert in mental capacity law, adult social care law and disability human rights. Lecturer at Bristol University and author of Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution.
Accessibility
BSL interpreters will be available. Closed captions will be optional.
The event will be recorded.
Independent Living Under Threat: Fighting Back!
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Independent Living Under Threat: Fighting Back!
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