I am preparing a legal case which involves challenging a local authorities
decision not provide care to a disabled individual at home.
The local authority have applied a lifting ban to all their staff and any
agency staff they fund. This means the individual in question has either
no support or has to move to residentail care.
I am looking for information or research on the national picture and in
particular any work that suggests how many disabled people may be affected
by such policies.
If anyone has produced information on good practice in lifting to protect
support workers from injury or ways around no lifiting policies I would
also apprecite this information.
thank you for your time
Chris Benson
Legal Officer
Disability Rights Commission
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