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Chief executive of Disability Rights UK Kamran Mallick urged MPs to restore provisions in the Care Act
CAMPAIGNERS for disabled people’s rights have joined civil-liberty and protest groups in urging MPs to reject the renewal of the Coronavirus Act in the Commons tomorrow.
Parliament passed the Act in March to give ministers powers to respond to the pandemic, including to postpone local elections, close pubs and allow courts to use videolink.
The time-limited powers, described as draconian by rights groups, can only be extended with MPs’ approval.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN