DISABLED people, carers and council workers in Glasgow united on Saturday to demand the Labour-led council end a devastating campaign of social care cuts and service closures.
The Stop Glasgow’s Care Crisis conference came amid rising anger over council decisions to close three adult day-care centres and the Charlie Reid Centre for Mental Health.
Glasgow Council has claimed the community services would make way for “personalised” care.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
JAMIE DRISCOLL explains how his group, Majority, plans to empower working people to empower themselves


