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WHY WE NEED A DISABILITY UNION With more and more conditions put around funding and support for disabled people, Dan White explains why we need a union to help us fight for our rights…
IN 2016, new conditions were put into place for charities. Grants from central Government departments came with a hefty price. The price being that those charities were not able to use said grants for “activity intended to influence - or attempt to influence - Parliament, Government or political parties” This amounted to a virtual gagging clause for charities who applied, who were desperate for funds to survive and to carry on assisting people.
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Recipient organisations were now basically, blackmailed into appeasement. It appeared the administration was telling the charity sector that criticism was something they were not prepared to tolerate. I am fiercely political in my work. As a parent with a hidden disability, caring for a 14-year-old child with a physical disability, I fail to see how anyone in a similar situation cannot be politically driven.
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