A judge has warned a cost-cutting local authority that it will not be allowed to force disabled people into residential care against their wishes. Disabled campaigners were appalled when Worcestershire County Council approved its new “maximum expenditure policy” last November. Under […]
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New campaign aims for 50,000 contact centre jobs in three years
A new campaigning charity is hoping to find jobs for 50, 000 disabled people in the contact centre industry within just three years. The ContactAbility campaign wants to attract disabled people who have faced barriers in securing mainstream work. The new […]
Campaign set for ‘inspiring’ defence of Human Rights Act
Disability charities are set to take part in a campaign they hope will help to save the Human Rights Act from being scrapped. The Conservative party has consistently threatened to repeal the act and replace it with a new bill of […]
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Hannah Cockroft, a double-gold medallist from the London 2012 Paralympic Games, at the February 2013 launch of a report by Whizz-Kidz, Generation Inspired?, a five-point manifesto that describes the positive legacy they want to see from the success of the London […]
London councils set to pose question DWP fears to ask
Local authorities in London are set to do what the government has refused to do, and commission research into the impact of the coalition’s welfare reforms on disabled people. The research will look at the impact of three of the government’s […]
Disability sport ‘controlled by non-disabled people’, DNS survey finds
Most of the UK’s leading national disability sports organisations are run and controlled by non-disabled people, a new survey by Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. The survey of 10 of the most influential organisations in disability sport was carried out […]
DWP stays silent on benefit cap impact on disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised for failing to provide any figures showing how many disabled people have had their benefits “capped” under its sweeping new welfare regime. DWP published research this week which showed how many […]
Questions for judge over failure to treat Eddie Kidd attack by wife as hate crime
A judge failed to treat a series of assaults on former motorcycle stuntman Eddie Kidd by his wife as disability hate crime, even though she called him a “fucking spastic” during one of the attacks. Samantha Kidd was jailed for five […]
NHS backs GP over ‘inflammatory’ comments on ‘fitness for work’
The NHS is refusing to take any action over a GP who made “inflammatory” comments about claimants of incapacity benefits in his national magazine column. Dr Phil Peverley, who works at a practice in Sunderland, made the comments in Pulse, the […]
Crow puts faith in welfare facts over fiction for new campaign
A disabled artist’s new project is aiming to give campaigners the tools to correct some of the most damaging lies and myths about the government’s welfare reforms. The artist-activist Liz Crow launched #InActualFact in response to years of propaganda from both […]