Tammana Choudhury on how winning independence
allowed her to give her family better support.
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Article
How
bad will this have to get before we take to
the streets to say the effects of these cuts
on vulnerable people is unacceptable? Rosemary
Trustam looks at how local authorities are
going about the cuts and challenges them to
look at more acceptable ways of saving money
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In
the current issue of Community Living..
The
Butterfly Project: making creative use of Individual
Budgets - Sean Kelly visited this innovative East
London project.
Are we inadvertently colluding with illegal practices?
Rosemary Trustam says the way authorities are
going about the cuts could be illegall.
Broken dreams - Lynne Powell describes a campaign
led by Advance Housing against government plans
which could make home ownership for vulnerable
people impossible.
A Community
Living seminar led by Belinda Schwehr, an
expert in Community Care Law, exploring the
rights of service users and duties of local
authorities.
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