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- Leading figures in the disability movement say they could stop cooperating with the Department for Work and Pensions if the government’s welfare reform bill becomes law.
- The London 2012 organising committee’s appeal for volunteers to take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympics has been criticised by leading disabled artists and performers.
- The disabled activists behind a ground-breaking report that accused the government of misleading parliament over its welfare reforms say major concessions agreed by a coalition minister are a victory for disabled people.
- Disabled peers have secured a string of key concessions from the government on its controversial disability living allowance reforms.
- A senior disabled MP is to examine the government’s failure to respond to allegations that it misled parliament over its disability living allowance reforms.
- Government cuts to vital disability benefits will be even harsher than the coalition previously admitted, official figures have revealed, with nearly half a million people set to lose their right to disability living allowance.
- A disabled American actor has caused an internet sensation after using his acceptance speech at a televised US awards ceremony to offer support to the British victim of a disability hate crime attack.
- The Crown Prosecution Service is reviewing a barrister’s decision not to call for stricter sentences for three people who took part in a “degrading” hate crime attack on a disabled man.
- A health minister has refused to accept the existence of a huge gap between the care and support that disabled people need, and the funding made available to pay for it.