Katherine Wedell is a campaigner and parent carer of a boy living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Follow her on @KatherineWedell and at www.duchennemum.blogspot.com
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReliant on kindness? How austerity is undermining the 2010 Equality ActReliance on kindness, in law and in public services, has no place in a democracy based on equal citizenship – but it’s the consequence of austerity.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIt’s the vulnerable who pay when councils outsource – a personal story of special needs transportOutsourcing services, combined with ‘austerity’, leads to inadequate oversight and corner cutting – and leaves service users vulnerable to injury, even death.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe real life damage of local authority cutsOur son, and many like him, will suffer acutely from the cuts being proposed by Oxfordshire County Council.