by Frances Ryan
33 BBC News, ‘Winterbourne View: Care workers jailed for abuse’, bbc.co.uk, 26 October 2012.
34 May Bulman, ‘Care home staff convicted after disabled residents were “kicked, punched and stripped naked” ’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 8 June 2017.
35 UCL, ‘Neglect common in English care homes’, ucl.ac.uk, 21 March 2018.
36 Women’s Budget Group, ‘Investing 2% of GDP in care industries could create 1.5 million jobs’, wbg.org.uk, 8 March 2016.
37 BBC News, ‘National Audit Office asked to look into Motability’, bbc.co.uk, 8 February 2018.
38 Nick Parker, ‘Free BMWs for pals of disabled in scam’, Sun, thesun.co.uk, 19 June 2011.
39 Neil Tweedie, ‘The car scam that will drive you crackers: As the Lottery con grandmother is given this £20,000 car, we reveal how thousands are driving off in brand new vehicles paid for by YOU’, Daily Mail, dailymail.co.uk, 11 May 2016.
40 Dan Bloom, ‘Cruel Tory benefit shake-up has forced 75,000 disabled people to give up their adapted cars’, Daily Mirror, mirror.co.uk, 5 March 2018.
41 Jon Vale, ‘Almost 80% of people on disability benefits “have seen health worsen since introduction of Tories’ new system’’’, Independent, 13 September 2017.
42 Ibid.
43 Patrick Butler, ‘Motability needs a new road map for managing finances, MPs say’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 21 May 2018.
44 Simon Murphy and Patrick Butler, ‘Motability firm boss quits after news of £2.2m bonus’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 7 December 2018.
45 John Pring, ‘Tory peer attacks McVey over “litany of inaccuracies” on Motability’, Disability News Service, disabilitynewsservice.com, 22 February 2018.
46 Toby Helm, ‘Disabled people lose legal aid in 99% of benefits disputes’, Observer, theguardian.com, 14 April 2018.
47 YouGov for Back Up, ‘Back Up wheelchair survey 2017’, backuptrust.org.uk, 14 November 2017.
48 Emily Dugan and Tom Phillips, ‘How your chances of getting an NHS wheelchair vary wildly depending on where you live’, BuzzFeed, buzzfeed. com, 1 August 2017.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
51 Sharon Brennon, ‘ “Alarming” figures show thousands still waiting too long for wheelchairs’, Health Service Journal, hsj.co.uk, 14 August 2018.
52 Denis Campbell, ‘Millions of patients denied use of a wheelchair’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 27 July 2018.
53 Press Association, ‘Disabled patients “relying on crowdfunding” for wheelchairs’, theguardian.com, 27 June 2017.
54 Access and Mobility Professional, ‘Wheelchair-user woes revealed in new report calling for “urgent innovation” ’, accessandmobilityprofessional.com, 30 April 2018.
55 Frances Ryan, ‘Need a wheelchair? Pay for it yourself’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 19 July 2017.
4 Housing
1 EHRC, ‘Housing and disabled people: Britain’s hidden crisis’, equalityhumanrights.com, 11 May 2018.
2 LSE, ‘1.8 million disabled people struggling to find accessible housing’, lse.ac.uk, 29 July 2016.
3 Leonard Cheshire, ‘No place like home’, leonardcheshire.org, 1 December 2014.
4 EHRC, ‘Housing and disabled people: Britain’s hidden crisis’, equalityhumanrights.com, 11 May 2018.
5 James Meikle, ‘People with disabilities treated like second-class citizens, says watchdog’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 19 July 2016.
6 EHRC, ‘Housing and disabled people’.
7 Robert Booth, ‘Builders criticised for lobbying against accessible homes’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 28 November 2018.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Leonard Cheshire, ‘The long wait for a home’, Leonardcheshire.org.uk, 19 April 2015.
11 EHRC, ‘Equality Commission calls for end to Scotland’s hidden disability housing crisis’, equalityhumanrights.com, 11 May 2018.
12 John Pring, ‘Concerns over Green Paper’s “chilling’ chilling” failure to address accessible housing crisis’, Disability News Service, disabilitynewsservice.com, 16 August 2018.
13 EHRC, ‘Housing and disabled people: Britain’s hidden crisis’, equalityhumanrights.com, 11 May 2018.
14 Leonard Cheshire, ‘The real cost of the lack of disabled-friendly homes’, 1 February 2014.
15 Mind, ‘Four in five people with mental health problems say their housing has made their mental health worse’, mind.org.uk, 3 May 2018.
16 LSE, ‘1.8 million disabled people struggling to find accessible housing’, lse.ac.uk, 29 July 2016.
17 Resolution Foundation, ‘Up to a third of millennials face renting from cradle to grave’, resolutionfoundation.org, 17 April 2018.
18 National Housing Federation, ‘Baby boomers hit by “shattering impact” of housing crisis’, housing.org.uk, 30 April 2018.
19 Toby Helm and Jonah Ramchandan, ‘Give Britain’s young homebuyers state loans for deposits, urges report’, Observer, theguardian.com, 29 July 2018.
20 National Housing Federation, ‘No DSS: Five leading letting agents risk breaking the law’, www.housing.org.uk, 22 August 2018.
21 Helen Pidd, ‘Landlords “unwilling” to rent to universal credit recipients’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 24 December 2017.
22 National Housing Federation, ‘Baby boomers hit by “shattering impact” of housing crisis’, housing.org.uk, 30 April 2018.
23 Benjamin Kentish, ‘Number of government-funded social homes falls by 97% since Conservatives took office’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 20 June 2018.
24 Robert Booth, ‘England needs 3m new social homes by 2040, says cross-party report’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 8 January 2019.
25 Press Association, ‘More than 1m families waiting for social housing in England’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 9 June 2018.
26 BBC Media Centre, ‘No place to call home’, bbc.co.uk, 19 October 2016.
27 Jamie Doward, ‘Housing crisis drives more than 1m private tenants deeper into poverty’, Observer, theguardian.com, 22 September 2018.
28 Shelter, ‘More than 300,000 people in Britain homeless today’, shelter.org.uk, 8 November 2017.
29 Ibid.
30 National Audit Office, ‘Homelessness’, nao.org, 13 September 2017.
31 Frances Perraudin and Niamh McIntryre, ‘Councils “ripped off” by private landlords, experts warn’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 1 January 2019.
32 Bill Davies, ‘In filthy, dangerous accommodation, Britain’s hidden homeless are suffering’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 20 January 2016.
33 Becky Snow, ‘Here’s the real story of homelessness and domestic abuse that the statistics hide’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 15 December 2017.
34 George Osborne, ‘George Osborne’s speech to the Conservative conference: Full text’, New Statesman, newstatesman.com, 8 October 2012.
35 John Pring, ‘Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people’, Disability News Service, disabilitynewsservice.com, 11 May 2017.
36 Department for Work and Pensions, ‘Equality impact assessment for benefit cap’, www.gov.uk, 23 July 2012.
37 Rajeev Syal, ‘ “Bedroom tax” will hit single parents and disabled people hardest’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 4 March 2013.
38 EHRC, ‘Is Britain fairer?’, equalityhumanrights.com, 25 October 2018.
39 May Bulman, ‘More than 57,000 people hit by bedroom tax fall behind on rent, Government report reveals’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 22 July 2016.
40 Steven Swinford, ‘Most people think “bedroom tax” is fair, poll finds’, Daily Telegraph, telegraph.co.uk, 8 November 2013.
41 Frances Ryan, ‘ “Bedroom tax” puts added burden on disabled people’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 16 July 2013.
42 Carers UK, ‘Bedroom tax: Carers facing debt, eviction and food poverty’, carersuk.org, 9 July 2013.
43 Ros Wynne Jones and Dan Bloom, ‘Tories finally make legal changes to the Bedroom Tax after humiliat
ing court defeat’, Daily Mirror, mirror.co.uk, 3 March 2017.
44 Emily Dugan, ‘ “Big lie” behind the bedroom tax: Families trapped with nowhere to move face penalty for having spare room’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 5 August 2013.
45 Crisis, ‘More than 24,000 people facing Christmas sleeping rough or in cars, trains, buses and tents’, crisis.org.uk, 14 December 2018.
46 National Audit Office, ‘Homelessness’, nao.org.uk, 13 September 2017.
47 Robert Booth, ‘Rise in homelessness not result of our policies, says housing secretary’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 18 December 2018; Lizzie Dearden, ‘Conservative austerity policies may have driven homelessness rise, housing secretary admits’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 24 December 2018
48 Patrick Butler, ‘Welfare reforms are main cause of homelessness in England, study finds’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 4 February 2015.
49 Patrick Butler, ‘Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in England, report finds’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 15 December 2017.
50 St Mungo’s, ‘Stop the scandal: The case for action on mental health and rough sleeping’, mungos.org, November 2016.
51 Ibid.
52 Patrick Greenfield et al., ‘At least 440 homeless people died in UK in past year, study shows’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 8 October 2018.
53 Patrick Greenfield and Sarah Marsh, ‘Deaths of UK homeless people more than double in five years’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 11 April 2018.
54 Sarah Marsh and Patrick Greenfield, ‘Deaths of mentally ill rough sleepers in London rise sharply’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 19 June 2018.
55 Ibid.
56 Mark Lister, ‘Homeless wheelchair-bound mum found dead in doorway of House of Fraser store’, Daily Mirror, mirror.co.uk, 7 March 2019.
57 Good4You, ‘Social exclusion, disability and homelessness’, good4you.org.uk, no date 2018.
58 Homeless Link, ‘Over half of homeless people suffer from chronic pain’, homeless.org.uk, 10 September 2018.
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid.
61 Crisis, ‘Turned away’, crisis.org.uk, 15 October 2014.
62 Crisis, ‘Rough sleeping set to rise by three quarters in next decade as report reveals scale of acute homelessness in Britain’, crisis.org.uk, 10 August 2017.
63 Toby Helm, ‘Housing crisis threatens a million families with eviction by 2020’, Observer, theguardian.com, 24 June 2017.
64 National Audit Office, ‘Rolling out Universal Credit’, nao.org.uk, 15 June 2018.
65 Patrick Butler, ‘Disabled people could slip through net in universal credit move, says charity’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 5 July 2018.
5 Women
1 Patrick Butler, ‘Government to review 1.6m disability benefit claims after U-turn’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 29 January 2018.
2 Mikey Smith, ‘Universal Credit is driving women to prostitution says MP Frank Field in astonishing plea to Esther McVey’, Daily Mirror, mirror.co.uk, 15 October 2018.
3 Lizzy Buchan, ‘TUC leaders reject call to decriminalise prostitution’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 13 September 2017.
4 Changing Lives, ‘The type of girl that would do that’, changing-lives.org.uk, 17 October 2016.
5 Star, ‘Sheffield women being forced into prostitution by benefit cuts’, thestar.co.uk, 2 November 2016.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ian Silvera, ‘Fawcett Society: Financial crisis pushed 826,000 women into low paid work’, International Business Times, ibtimes.co.uk, 18 August 2014.
9 Ibid.
10 Women’s Budget Group, ‘The female face of poverty’, wbg.org.uk, 18 July 2018.
11 Ibid
12 SafeLives, SafeLives briefing to Frances Ryan, 2018.
13 Women’s Aid, ‘Support for disabled women’, womensaid.org.uk, no date 2014.
14 Refuge, Refuge briefing to Frances Ryan, 2018.
15 SafeLives, ‘Disability and domestic violence’, safelives.org.uk, 22 November 2016.
16 Ibid.
17 SafeLives, ‘Disabled survivors too: Disabled people and domestic abuse’, safelives.org.uk, March 2017.
18 University of Kent, ‘Don’t put up with it: Domestic violence and women with learning disabilities’, kent.ac.uk, 26 January 2015.
19 SafeLives, ‘Disabled survivors too: Disabled people and domestic abuse’, safelives.org.uk, March 2017.
20 BBC News, ‘Why disabled women can’t access all refuges’, bbc.co.uk, 28 November 2018.
21 Jamie Grierson, ‘Council funding for women’s refuges cut by nearly £7m since 2010’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 23 March 2018.
22 Lizzy Buchan, ‘Women’s refuge budgets slashed by nearly a quarter over past seven years’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 17 October 2017.
23 Alexandra Topping, ‘Universal Credit is backward step in tackling domestic abuse, MPs warn’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 22 October 2018.
24 Tom Macleod, ‘Domestic violence victims “sleeping rough” after refuges closed’, Sky News, news.sky.com, 21 October 2017.
25 Ibid. Peter Walker and Kevin Rawlinson, ‘Universal credit to be paid to main carer in attempt to help women’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 11 January 2019.
26 Full Fact, ‘Are more children being taken from their families?’ fullfact.org, 29 March 2018.
27 Sandra Laville, ‘Children unnecessarily removed from parents, report claims’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 18 January 2017.
28 Ibid.
29 Legal Action for Women, ‘Suffer the little children and their mothers: A dossier on the unjust separation of children from their mothers’, legalactionforwomen.net, 18 January 2017.
30 Sandra Laville, ‘Children unnecessarily removed from parents, report claims’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 18 January 2017.
31 Nuffield Foundation, ‘Inequalities in child welfare intervention rates’, nuffieldfoundation.org, no date 2017.
32 Patrick Butler, ‘Austerity policy blamed for record numbers of children taken into care’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 11 October 2017.
33 Ibid.
34 Action for Children, ‘Budgets for children’s early help services suffer £743 million funding drop in five years, figures show’, actionforchildren.org.uk, 27 September 2018.
35 Frances Perraudin and Niamh McIntyre, ‘Rise in children taken into care pushes 88% of councils over budget’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 8 January 2019.
36 Engender, ‘Our bodies, our rights: Identifying and removing barriers to disabled women’s reproductive rights in Scotland’, engender.org.uk, 6 November 2018.
37 Sisters of Frida, ‘Disabled women: Facts and stats’, sisofrida.org, no date 2017.
38 UK Women’s Budget Group, ‘Disabled women and austerity’, wbg.org.uk, 22 October 2018.
39 Ibid.
40 Victoria Brignell, ‘The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget’, New Statesman, newstatesman.com, 9 December 2010.
41 Ibid.
42 Kyoko Hasegawa, ‘Lifetimes of pain: Victims of Japan’s forced sterilization program hope for justice, or at least an apology’, Japan Times, japantimes.co.jp, 20 April 2018.
43 Bridie Jabour, ‘UN examines Australia’s forced sterilisation of women with disabilities’, Guardian Australia, theguardian.com, 10 November 2015.
44 Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (Drill), the University of Bedfordshire and Ginger Giraffe, ‘Re-imagining social care services in co-production with disabled parents and professionals’, 26 September 2018.
45 Sally Williams, ‘Who cares? Meet the children who juggle school with looking after their parents’, Daily Telegraph, telegraph.co.uk, 23 January 2016.
46 Dave Howard, ‘Number of child carers “four times previous estimate” ’, BBC News, bbc.co.uk, 16 November 2010.
47 BBC News, ‘Being a young carer’, bbc.co.uk, 14 September 2018.
48 Ibid.
49 Ben Quinn, ‘Thousands of children as young as
five act as family carers, figures show’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 16 May 2013.
50 May Bulman, ‘Number of young carers in UK soars by 10,000 in four years, figures show’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 28 January 2018.
51 Ibid.
52 Children’s Society, ‘Hidden from view: The experiences of young carers in England’, childrenssociety.org.uk, May 2013.
53 BBC News, ‘Being a young carer’, 2018.
54 May Bulman, ‘Number of young carers in UK soars by 10,000 in four years, figures show’, Independent, independent.co.uk, 28 January 2018.
55 Patrick Butler, ‘Four out five young carers receive no council support, says study’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 27 December 2016.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Somerset County Gazette, ‘Somerset County Council approves millions in cuts – but those to young carers’ services have been delayed’, somersetcountygazette.co.uk, 12 September 2018.
6 Children
1 Daily Mirror, ‘Shame of ConDem cuts’, 16 April 2014.
2 Andrew Brown, ‘Perhaps it doesn’t matter if the Daily Mirror’s weeping child is a lie’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 16 April 2014.
3 Heather Stewart and Richard Partington, ‘Poorest families to lose out on £210 a year owing to benefits cap’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 13 October 2018.
4 Contact, analysis for Frances Ryan, 2018.
5 Contact, ‘Counting the costs’, contact.org.uk, 5 December 2018.
6 Joseph Rowntree Foundation, analysis for Frances Ryan, 2018.
7 Contact, ‘Counting the costs’, contact.org.uk, 5 December 2018.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 EHRC, ‘Being disabled in Britain: A journey less equal’, equalityhumanrights.com, 3c April 2017.
11 Ibid.
12 Richard Adams, ‘Hundreds of children’s playgrounds in England close due to cuts’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 13 April 2017.
13 Mark Blunden, ‘The council playground in London that costs £20 a time’, Evening Standard, standard.co.uk, 20 January 2014.
14 National Youth Agency, ‘Cuts watch: Policy update on local authority cuts to youth services’, nya.org.uk, 15 December 2014.
15 Patrick Butler ‘1,000 Sure Start children’s centres may have shut since 2010’, Guardian, theguardian.com, 5 April 2018.