An award-winning disabled artist is to spend three days in bed in front of an audience, in an attempt to portray the contradictions of her impairment, and the government’s “miserable terrifying, punishing” fitness for work assessment regime. The writer-director-activist Liz Crow […]
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Labour calls for urgent investigation over ‘misleading’ Atos bid information
Labour has called for an “immediate investigation” after evidence emerged that Atos Healthcare won two lucrative disability assessment contracts by using “misleading” information about its links with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). Anne McGuire, the shadow minister for disabled people, said the […]
Review of Equality 2025 sparks concerns
The launch of a government review has raised fears that ministers are planning to replace their advisory network of disabled people with a controversial new “alliance” of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), charities, service-providers and private sector organisations. The new Conservative minister […]
Call for government to halt ‘barbaric’ treatment of disabled prisoner
Hundreds of campaigners have warned the Ministry of Justice that returning a seriously-ill disabled man to prison is likely to prove to be a “death sentence” for him. Protesters today handed the government a petition, signed by nearly 1 500 supporters, […]
COMMENT: Cameron’s ‘shameless’ generation
Shameless. It is a word David Cameron used last December when discussing his plans to tackle “problem families” describing the “Shameless” culture that some commentators believed was entrenched in British life. The Daily Mail inevitably branded these families the “Shameless generation”. […]
COMMENT: Ed wants One Nation… but not for disabled people
It’s lovely that the media enjoyed Ed Miliband’s speech to the Labour conference. And his ability to memorise a script, wave his hands, and walk around a stage at the same time without needing to check his notes for directions. “Spectacular”, […]
London 2012: Sports festival will build on Paralympics momentum
Some of Britain’s top Paralympians will be appearing at a new festival of sport that aims to build on the legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and unearth future medal-winners. The first ParalympicsGB Sports Fest will take place next month […]
Winterbourne View: Confusion reigns again over hate crime sentencing
The sentencing of 11 former employees of a private hospital for abusing people with learning difficulties has become mired in confusion, with the government unable to say whether the judge treated the offences as disability hate crimes. The sentencing of the […]
Winterbourne View: Sentencing was ‘woefully inadequate’
Sentences handed to staff who admitted abusing people with learning difficulties at a private hospital near Bristol have been branded “woefully inadequate” by leading members of the self-advocacy movement. Six of the former employees of Winterbourne View were given prison sentences […]
New minister McVey offers little hope on benefit cuts
The new minister for disabled people has agreed to consider fresh demands for the government to assess the full impact on disabled people of all of its cuts and reforms to benefits and services. But Esther McVey who replaced Maria Miller […]