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Disabled campaigners have welcomed the care regulator’s pledge to place a stronger emphasis on the role of service-users in inspecting residential homes. Andrea Sutcliffe, who has been appointed as the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) first chief inspector of social care, set […]
Broadcasters will have to measure the quality of the subtitles they provide on live television programmes, the broadcasting watchdog has announced. Deaf campaigners welcomed the decision by Ofcom, but said it was “long overdue”. The results of an Ofcom consultation showed […]
Living in poverty has a “profound” impact on disabled children’s ability to secure the rights they are entitled to under three UN conventions according to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC). A new OCC report, We Want to Help People […]
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The new minister for disabled people – a former spin doctor who idolised Margaret Thatcher – has received a mixed welcome from disability campaigners. Mike Penning, the Conservative MP for Hemel Hempstead, was until this week the minister responsible for trying […]
A Conservative minister has again been caught out using misleading statistics to try to show that the government’s policies are not damaging inclusion and equality for disabled people. Esther McVey, who until this week was minister for disabled people, used government […]
Crisis meetings have taken place across the country because the government contractor Atos Healthcare has a serious shortage of doctors able to carry out disability benefits assessments, Disability News Service (DNS) has been told. The meetings came as the government prepares […]
Campaigners are calling for a “radical re-think” of employment support that would sweep away the government’s sprawling, centralised programmes and allow disabled people to decide for themselves how to spend the money allocated to help them into work. In a new […]
A tribunal’s ruling that a disabled man and his wife do need to sleep in separate bedrooms has added fresh weight to the campaign to defeat the government’s so-called “bedroom tax”. The couple’s local authority Herefordshire council, decided last year that […]
There is not one disabled person among the “team leaders” who are heading the high-level preparations of 21 Paralympic sports in the lead-up to Rio 2016, the British Paralympic Association (BPA) has admitted. The admission came as BPA began the induction […]