The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group represents organisations within the voluntary sector who work alongside disabled people. It is a charity registered in London founded in 2008.
10-477: Rhidian Hughes is the chief executive. It has repeatedly criticised the government's handling of the sleep-in carers issue and has had correspondence from Kelly Tolhurst , the minister, on behalf of non-profit employers in the social care sector. It opposed the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 . The organisation has repeatedly called for an end to austerity and lobbied government for sustainable reform of
20-683: Is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2015 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party , she served as Minister of State for Schools and Childhood from September to October 2022. Tolhurst previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rough Sleeping and Housing from 2020 to 2021, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation and Maritime in 2020 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility from 2018 to 2020 and
30-754: The European Union prior to the 2016 referendum . Tolhurst was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Homelessness at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in September 2020, replacing Luke Hall , who had in turn replaced Simon Clarke in a different position in the same department. She resigned from this position in January 2021 after receiving "devastating family news". On 1 July 2022, Tolhurst
40-605: The Labour Party. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Homelessness was a junior position in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities which in 2024 became the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government in the British government. It was held by Felicity Buchan . This article related to government in
50-581: The seat for the Conservatives at the 2015 general election six months later, securing a majority of over 7,000. She was re-elected in 2017. Tolhurst has served on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, the European Scrutiny Committee and the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. She was made an assistant government whip during the reshuffle on 9 January 2018 . Tolhurst
60-461: The social care system. It supports the development of assistive technology in social care. In December 2019 the group reported that 2,250 people with special needs were detained in long-stay NHS accommodation. 463 had been there for more than five years and 355 for more than 10 years. Effective provision of care in the community appeared a remote prospect for these patients. Kelly Tolhurst Kelly Jane Tolhurst (born 23 August 1978)
70-526: Was appointed Government Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Household by Prime Minister Boris Johnson , following the resignation of Chris Pincher . On 7 September 2022, she was appointed Minister of State in the Department for Education . On 8 March 2023, she was appointed as a member of the Privy Council . In the 2024 United Kingdom general election , she was unseated by Lauren Edwards from
80-513: Was appointed the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 19 July 2018. In February 2020, Tolhurst was appointed as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport at the Department for Transport , succeeding Nus Ghani who had been relieved of ministerial responsibilities. Tolhurst campaigned to remain in
90-711: Was briefly Deputy Chief Whip in 2022. She is a former councillor for the Rochester West ward on Medway Council . Tolhurst was born in Rochester , where her father Morris Tolhurst was a boat builder. She attended Wainscott Primary School in Rochester and Chapter School in Strood , a non-selective state school for girls aged 11 to 18. From 2008, she ran a marine survey business, called Tolhurst Associates, with her father, with employment in marketing previous to this point. Tolhurst
100-551: Was elected to the Rochester West ward on Medway Council in 2011 and served as a councillor until 2018 when she resigned. In the by-election for the ward that followed in March 2018, the seat was taken by the Labour candidate Alex Paterson. She was selected to contest the 2014 Rochester and Strood by-election which was triggered by the defection of Mark Reckless to UKIP . Tolhurst lost the by-election, held on 20 November 2014, but regained
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