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Sylvia Siddique told ITV News she worries about her son's future

UK: ‘It’s a Life-or-Death Situation’ – New Allegations of Disability Neglect at Lifeways Care Company! (9.4.2025)

“In August 2022, our then newly appointed CEO Andrea Kinkade launched a Transformation Plan. Backed up by over £10 million worth of investment, since then, the satisfaction of those we care for, and our staff, has improved.”Rebecca Bauers, Care Quality Commission Director for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People, said: “The issues reported to ITV are clearly very distressing – no one should be put at risk due to poor care and where we need to, we will and have taken immediate action to protect people.

“We are monitoring Lifeways Community Care Limited closely, including carrying out inspections and are in regular contact with the Department for Health and Social Care regarding our findings.

“We are working hard to improve our regulatory oversight, including increasing the number of inspections we do to give the public confidence in quality of care.”

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UK: DWP Issues 2nd Dodgy Press Release Designed to Trick Media into Supporting Disability Benefits Cuts! (22.3.2025)

The department’s fourth misleading statement came as it claimed – again in a footnote – that 70 per cent of the increase in the number of disabled people receiving the health element of universal credit and ESA in the past five years “was not expected by the Department”.

But it failed to mention the impact of the pandemic, with research by the respected Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) – published the previous day – finding that “mental health has worsened since the pandemic”, which was “consistent with rising disability benefit claims for mental health”.

The IFS report found that “deaths of despair” – those attributed to alcohol, drugs and suicide – rose by 24 per cent in England and Wales in 2023, compared with the 2015-19 pre-pandemic average.

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