Mirror story today on the film that Ros Wynne Jones, Moore Lavan Films and me at False Economy have made featuring Mary Laver. Mary was an Olympics gamesmaker volunteer and torchbearer and is also an Independent Living Fund recipient. The ILF is a fund that severely disabled people use to pay for the extra care help they need to live independent lives like everyone else. Naturally, this disgusting government has tried to close the fund. Earlier this month, the Court of Appeal overturned the closure decision that the government made at the end of last year, but the government has not said what it will do next – ie whether it will make another attempt to close the fund and leave disabled people without the money they need to keep living. Mary has lost about three stone this year, because of the worry and uncertainty caused by the government’s closure announcement at the end of last year.

In this film, Mary let us film her and her carers working with her over a 24-hour period so that people could see what high-level care really looked like. She also went without her carers for some of that time so that people could see what her life would be like without that care:

MaryLaver’s Fight for Independence: Cameron’s Cruellest Cut ? from moorelavanfilms on Vimeo.