Leonard Cheshire Disability publishes manifesto for Senedd elections
Leonard Cheshire Disability has published its manifesto for Senedd elections, due to be held in May 2021.
The manifesto is based around nine campaigning priorities:
- Professionalise Wales’ social care workforce
- Promote awareness of the existence of social care funding direct payments
- Integration of health and social care funding
- Put disabled people at the heart of Wales’ politics
- Remove barriers to disabled people gaining and retaining employment
- Enshrine the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into Welsh Law and appoint a Disabled Persons Commissioner
- Make Wales accessible
- Improve digital literacy amongst disabled people
- Retain the UK’s global leadership on disability inclusion in international development programmes
Posted 2021-01-25 02:04:01