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An exhaustive and “timely” new report has laid bare the coalition’s failure to meet its human rights obligations to disabled people under international law. The report suggests that the UK has gone from being an international leader in disability rights to […]
Four in five disabled students say they are more likely to drop out of university if the government presses ahead with plans to reform the system of disability-related higher education support, according to “shocking” new figures. The poll of disabled students, […]
Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today? Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to […]
Actors, MPs, religious leaders and disabled activists – including organisers of the War On Welfare (WOW) petition – united for a memorial service outside parliament to highlight the human cost of the government’s austerity programme, such as the 10,000 people who died shortly after […]
Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today? Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to […]
Disabled campaigners have raised concerns about the “worrying” and “disturbing” decision to give more than one million pounds of public lottery money to the sister charity of the main organisation lobbying for assisted suicide to be legalised. The disabled people’s organisation […]
A new user-led report aims to focus blame for the “national scandal” of the work capability assessment (WCA) away from the government contractor Atos Healthcare and towards the “culture of contempt” that lies at the heart of the test. Assessing the […]
Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs have raised concerns over government plans to “reform” the system of higher education support for disabled students. The disabled Tory MP Paul Maynard was among coalition MPs who questioned the plans to focus disabled students’ allowance […]
London’s annual disability arts festival Liberty will return to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park next month as part of National Paralympic Day. It will be the second time that Liberty’s disabled artists have shared London’s Olympic Park venue with some of […]
The government is to launch a competition for students aimed at finding a cheap but effective way to introduce audio and visual information into every bus in the country. The Liberal Democrat transport minister Baroness Kramer made the announcement at a […]