Disabled people need right to travel abroad, say UK MPs amid ‘ridiculous’ restrictions row

People who require full-time personal assistants have questioned whether local care boards are breaching human rights law with respect to travel funding. People who require full-time personal assistants have questioned whether local care boards are breaching human rights law with respect to travel funding. Disability Disabled people need right to travel abroad, say UK MPs amid ‘ridiculous’ restrictions row Outcry over ‘brazenly discriminatory’ funding practices among NHS care boards and local councils, with wide variations in rules

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Prefer the Guardian on Google Disabled people must have a guaranteed right to travel abroad, MPs and peers have said, as further cases emerged of individuals barred from taking holidays as a result of “ridiculous” rules imposed by local NHS care boards and local councils.