Disability Kills
Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) recently claimed the disabled are ‘dying of poverty’ with people unable to get personal care like help with using the toilet and shower as they cannot afford it. GDA leader Tressa Burke says she is now attending the funerals of those unable to cope, some of whom have taken their own lives.
Accusing the SNP of excluding the disabled from its plans to eradicate child poverty, and implement self-directed support and 20-minute neighbourhoods, she laments no state accountability for local decisions to cut social care budgets, like Glasgow cutting £21.5 million, leaving many allegedly without any social care. Glasgow simultaneously increased client charges to 75% of income over a certain threshold.
Claiming that many families with children include at least one disabled person, the GDA says it is illogical to help children but not the disabled, and are calling for the SNP to honour a previous manifesto commitment to abolish care charges altogether.
The GDA recently met Humza Yousaf and voiced their opposition to Scotland’s proposed Assisted Dying legislation. He said GDA opposition was ‘incredibly strong’ as they feel the sick and disabled may feel pressurised into it. Yousaf and several members of the government are opposed to it, including Health Secretary Michael Matheson.
https://www.isp.scot/september-2nd-september-8th-2023/
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