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Iain Duncan Smith has been given two weeks to demonstrate
why the bedroom tax should not be subject to a judicial review. The work and pensions secretary is facing a
legal challenge against the government's 'under-occupancy' charge by law firm
Hopkin Murray Beskine on behalf of 10 disabled children. At the high court, Mr
Justice Mitting ruled that the claimants’ desire for a judicial review before
the policy's inception on April 1 was too short a timescale. But he said a full hearing could proceed in
May if he decided that a review should go ahead after hearing the DWP’s reasons
for contesting the challenge. Read more
on 24dash.
Young disabled people are ‘locked out’ of living
independently because they do not trust the information given about homes
suitable for them, a survey says.
Trailblazers, a group of disabled campaigners from across the UK, spoke to
200 young disabled people and found 85 per cent did not feel confident in the
advice given to them about wheel-chair accessible homes. The advice came from estate agents, local authorities and
other housing providers and the report Locked out says this has stopped at
least half of the people interviewed from living independently. ‘Many young disabled people lack the
necessary faith in the services of local authorities, estate agents, landlords or
property developers to make it possible for them to live independently or to
move house where and when they want to,’ the report says. Download a copy of
the report from the Trailblazers website.
