Press Releases

Press Releases

Latest News:

Leonard Cheshire statement on Chancellor's announcement that Commission for Social Care Inspection and Healthcare Commission are to merge - 16 March 2005

Leonard Cheshire statement on announcement of DWP's incapacity benefit reforms - 2 February 2005

Going underground? - Tube still excludes disabled people - 31 December 2004

Lack of toilets can make rail travel impossible for disabled people this Christmas - 24 December 2004

Rail Accessibility - End Date Must Be Enforced! - 29 November 2004

Queen's Speech - hunting fight delays Disability Bill - 23 November 2004

"You Cannot Bully People off Incapacity Benefit" Charities Respond to Government Statements on Incapacity Benefit - 15 October 2004

Disability charity calls for snooping in train toilets! - 29 September 2004

Disabled People left behind this holiday season - 30 August 2004

Committee report boosts charity's rail campaign - 28th July 2004

Rail white paper - more rail delays for disabled people - 15th July 2004

Comprehensive Spending Review 2004 - Gap Between NHS And Social Services Getting Wider - 13th July 2004

NHS Disability Plan must be properly resourced - 10th June 2004

Parliamentary Committee Backs Charity's Call For Accessible Trains By 2017 - 27th May 2004

Further delay in end date for rail vehicles spells bad news for disabled passengers - 1 April 2004

I'll be dead before i can get on a train - 29 March 2004

Archive:

Brown favours churches and sacred places and again ignores irrecoverable vat for charities - 18 March 2004

Could Mars be more accessible than Margate? - 26 January 2004

Disability Bill: A welcome first step towards meeting manifesto commitment to disabled people - 3 December 2003

Green light for legal discrimination - 26 Nov 2003

First ever as disability rights put on the Political agenda in every parliament - 13 Nov 2003

Inaccessible transport cost the tax payer 40 million pounds -16 September 2003

"We're Not Going To Waste Another Four Years" - John Hutton MP, Minister Of State For Health - 26 March 2003

Leonard Cheshire response to MEP Richard Howitt's Draft Directive - 15 March 2003

Strategic Rail Authority Statement - 22 January 2003

European Year of Disabled People - 22 January 2003

Hunting Hounds or Disabled People? - 13 November 2002

Campaign to break health care barriers - 7 October 2002

Charity warns that disabled people will lose out as spending review fails to address funding gap - 15 July 2002

Call for Government action after cash for disabled people goes astray - 26 June 2002

Leonard Cheshire response to Single Equality Commission Proposal by Barbara Roche MP - 15 May 2002

A price worth paying? - 19 April 2002

Government must fund the full cost of care - 19 April 2002

Disabled people denied primary health care services - 16 April 2002

Disabled people denied educational services - 16 April 2002

Disabled left out in the cold - 16 April 2002

Response to new charging guidance - 28 November 2001

Thousands say no to personal care charges - 23 July 2001

Would you pay £11 for a bath? - 4 April 2001 (26)

Long Term Care - Pay up or face exclusion - 8 February 2001

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