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A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

June 22, 2017 0

Disability-related honours handed to special school heads and service-providers

The Cabinet Office has defended the diversity of the UK honours system, despite the latest disability-related recipients being dominated by special school teachers and other professionals recognised for providing services to disabled people. The Queen’s birthday honours list, announced this week, includes MBEs, OBEs and CBEs for at least 10 people for their work

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Head and shoulders of David Hooke, with subtitle saying 'Going through the assessments we've both got worse'

June 7, 2017 0

DPAC targets marginal seats with quartet of films on austerity impact

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Anti-cuts activists have produced four films that show the impact of austerity on disabled people, in a bid to boost Labour’s chances in 50 marginal constituencies in the run-up to election day. Each of the short films being used by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) features a disabled person who has been personally affected

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Dave Jurgensen at the protest, with a sign saying don't wait til it's too late round his neck, next to a woman with a placard saying we are people not profit

June 7, 2017 0

DPAC protesters march through May’s constituency to highlight austerity impact

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Activists have taken to the streets of the prime minister’s constituency to highlight the impact of Tory austerity cuts on disabled people over the last seven years. The protest by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) in the centre of Maidenhead, Berkshire, saw about 30 disabled activists and their allies march from Maidenhead rail station

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June 7, 2017 0

#CripTheVoteUK campaign ‘may have awakened disabled voters’

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A new, non-partisan online campaign could have helped bring about an “awakening” among some disabled people that their hard-fought rights are at stake in tomorrow’s general election, according to its founders. #CripTheVoteUK was only launched in late April, but the disabled activists who founded the campaign believe it has made a small but significant

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May 25, 2017 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: TUC criticised over HQ access

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Disabled union activists have criticised their own national federation, the TUC, for its reluctance to improve access at its London headquarters, following years of complaints from delegates at the annual Disabled Workers’ Conference. A motion calling on the TUC to make major improvements to the accessibility of Congress House in central London was passed

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Protesters outside the Tory offices, watched by police officers

May 4, 2017

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DPAC issues tactical voting plea to save country from five more years of Tory rule

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Anti-cuts activists have called for disabled people to vote tactically at the general election, in a bid to remove the Conservative party from power. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) launched a campaign this week to “unseat” the Tory government, with a protest outside the party’s election headquarters in Westminster (pictured). Although they failed to

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May 4, 2017

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Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

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Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit assessments delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have seriously damaged their health, and how its failings will affect how they vote in next month’s general election. The discussion on the social media platform Twitter was the first major event organised by

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April 27, 2017

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Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’

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Activists hope a new non-partisan online campaign – based on a successful US user-led movement – could finally enable disabled people to become a political force in the UK, and play a significant role in deciding June’s general election. The hope is that the #CripTheVoteUK campaign will allow the millions of disabled people in

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April 27, 2017

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Bank finally admits it failed disabled customer, after three-year battle

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A disabled activist has won a three-year battle with his bank over its refusal to allow him to communicate by email and provide him with a direct telephone contact number as reasonable adjustments. The Financial Ombudsman ruled that the Co-operative Bank had failed in its duties under the Equality Act, and awarded Adam Lotun

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March 30, 2017

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More than 220 member groups of mental health network close in two years

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A charity is warning that scores of user-led mental health groups across England have been forced to close, many of them after losing out to large mental health charities and private sector organisations that have been “sweeping up” their contracts. Research by the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) has found that 221 of its

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