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Independent View: the Broken of Britain campaign against Welfare Reform Bill

By Rhydian Fôn James | Thu 24th March 2011 - 10:26 am

Earlier in March The Broken of Britain launched a campaign against the “anti-disability” provisions in the Welfare Reform Bill, the Government’s main plank for a raft of cuts affecting disabled people. Campaigners, politicians and academics are all agreed that parts of the Bill will cause hardship for disabled people.

A disabled person lies on the beach, having fallen from a wheelchair

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