Large companies should be doing more to provide job opportunities for people with learning difficulties, according to a disabled campaigner. Mark Brookes, a senior policy worker with the learning difficulties charity Values Into Action, spoke out after new government figures … Continue reading →

Campaigners say a government training and education bill will discriminate against many disabled students by depriving them of the right to join a basic apprenticeships scheme. Discussion of the apprenticeships, skills, children and learning bill – which has reached the … Continue reading →

A disabled law student who was removed from the shop floor of a clothes store because she wasn’t meeting a strict dress code has been awarded more than £9,000 compensation. An employment tribunal ruled that US clothing giant Abercrombie & … Continue reading →

The disabled British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has been awarded America’s highest civilian honour by the US President, Barack Obama. Obama presented Hawking with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House on 12 August. He … Continue reading →

Many local authorities should be doing more to prepare for the effects of the recession on disabled and older people, and others in potentially “vulnerable” situations, according to the public spending watchdog. A new report by the Audit Commission, its … Continue reading →

A disabled former commissioner of Britain’s equality watchdog has welcomed its plans to do more to fight the discrimination faced by individual groups – including disabled people – but says they are three years too late. Sir Bert Massie resigned … Continue reading →

A mental health anti-stigma campaign has released two “provocative” online films, as a new poll revealed that many members of the public still believe people with schizophrenia are likely to be violent. The short films, launched by Time to Change, … Continue reading →

A disabled artist in a Nazi uniform posed in her wheelchair in Trafalgar Square to mark the 70th anniversary of a Nazi programme that led to the murder of a quarter of a million disabled people.  Liz Crow was taking … Continue reading →

Thousands of disabled people have backed a new campaign to prevent the government scrapping two key disability benefits. The campaign to save disability living allowance (DLA) and attendance allowance (AA) follows the publication of the government’s care and support green … Continue reading →

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to be given a major shake-up that will put more focus on the discrimination faced by individual groups, including disabled people. The move to have a more “strand-focused” approach could win support … Continue reading →