Posts by Sacha
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Angela Hart,
I believe he would have been interested in projected numbers who might be eligible for support, not on the answers about perceptions of whether it was provided. And yes, the detail about needs is released later. I'm having some trouble usefully untangling some of the numbers in what has been published so far.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
all good on the name front. You may recall me several months ago pointing out the pattern of discourse attacking Cunliffe for having Key’s weaknesses – especially untrustworthiness founded on lying. Worked well for Bush/Rove. Pretty standard politics.
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having been caught out in his denial he has removed his party’s ability to pursue National
Exactly as intended. This year Joyce and co have been faithfully running Karl Rove’s strategy that got Bush elected. A compliant media has helped, along with a Labour back office that doesn’t seem to know how to do the basics, despite McCarten’s track record. Sadly if their vote does collapse, too many of the MPs who survive will still be the deadwood.
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Angela Hart,
and the guy is an accountant
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Any unchallenged obsession with rental income from leveraged rentals seems strange to me. What proportion of peiple are landlords? What proportion are renters?
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Depends what sort of useful. :)
The background notes mention an advance copy of the data being supplied to help the government design its limited funded family care policy.
In March 2014, we received a special and urgent data request from the Ministry of Health for embargoed provisional data from the 2013 Disability Survey. The data required was to inform their minister on policy-cost estimates for funded family care of disabled people.
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I'll have a post on the disability survey tomorrow - preview here.
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One of the early lessons in setting up the It's Not OK campaign was that we can focus on better behaviours rather than waiting for attitudes to catch up.
Cracking down meaningfully on abuse does not mean more handwaving. Real enforcement by agencies who supposedly act on behalf of all of us would help right now. They have what is needed for that but some seem far more interested in upholding the interests of the people and organisations they contract with.
Changing that contracting model has some potential as well, which is being slowly piloted in various ways. But why do we have reviews every five years that identify the same structural problems, then do nothing to fix them? Real people get hurt. Not good enough.
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Hard News: Practically jokers, in reply to Joe Wylie,
deliberately trimming my sig from the image
rude
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Up Front: Dropping the A-Bomb, in reply to Danielle,
oh some of the conditions I wouldn't wish on anyone and I'm happy we check for them. Down syndrome is not one of those.
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