This website offers an archive of the UK’s most important disability-related news stories.
The aim is to provide a useful resource for disabled people, disability rights campaigners and disability organisations in the UK.
The stories are all produced by Disability News Service, which concentrates on issues around equality, discrimination, human rights, independent living and poverty. They are written by John Pring, an experienced journalist who has been reporting on disability issues for more than 15 years.
Stories covered by the service so far include the fight to improve disabled people’s protection from discrimination in the new equality bill; calls from disability rights campaigners to strengthen the law on assisted suicide; the resignations of Baroness Campbell and Sir Bert Massie from the Equality and Human Rights Commission; and in-depth reports on hate crime, the government’s mental health strategy and the launch of the Building the National Care Service white paper.
On this site, you can use a searchable archive (right) containing every disability-related news story produced by the service since it was launched in April 2009.
The archive does not include stories written in the last three months, but the site includes links to disability websites that subscribe to the news service and publish the latest news stories every week.
If you have any comments, suggestions or stories, or are interested in subscribing to the service, please contact me by email or phone. The details are on the ‘Contact details’ page.
John Pring, editor/founder, Disability News Service