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Penny Mordaunt heads Global Disability Summit despite always voting to cut disability benefits.

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Penny Mordaunt Global Disability Summit

Tuesday sees the UK Department for International Development (UK DFID), along with co-hosts International Disability Alliance (IDA), and the Government of Kenya  host the first-ever Global Disability Summit in London, UK. The program however shows it’s not very globally oriented. So the much publicized Global Disability Summit is upon us. On tuesday “high level” disability experts and companies will come together to

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‘More than 1.5 million people in the UK, including more than 350,000 children, experienced destitution last year’ – Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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Alex ∼ @RespectIsVital ∼ 8th June 2018 Universal credit tips the already poor into hardship, say charity, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. More than 1.5 million people in the UK, including more than 350,000 children, experienced destitution last year, their study found, this meaning they regularly went without food, toiletries, adequate clothing or shelter. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says a “tangled combination” of benefit

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