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If you’ve been reading The Herald recently, you’ll know SNP has broken its promise to create a new law to protect disabled people.

The Learning Disabilities, Autism, and Neurodivergence (LDAN) Bill was promised by Nicola Sturgeon and developed by Humza Yousaf, but was then deprioritised, delayed, and ultimately killed by John Swinney.

We are being asked to believe that legislation isn’t really necessary, because the government can do all the things that are needed just by changing some policies and moving some money around.

The SNP also says that a new law would take time, but doesn’t want to explain why it can’t do short-term policy change while also passing a long-promised and much-needed new law: are they not up to the job of doing both, or does it just seem like too much work for people who don’t really matter?

SNP accused of 'betrayal' over ditched disabilities law

People like my brother don't matter enough to the SNP

John Swinney has shown disabled Scots where they sit on his list of priorities

Unsurprisingly, the government’s decision has sparked outrage from many of the people who were supposed to be helped by the LDAN Bill. As has been highlighted already, many people shared hugely traumatic personal stories in the belief that, in exchange, the government would use that information to shape new legal rights. A common theme from those people is that they have been ‘betrayed’ by the........

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