For the full stories, please click on the links: A minister is to investigate why the Crown Prosecution Service has refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. A disabled … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links The Crown Prosecution Service is to investigate why it refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. Disabled people are to … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links Furious disabled activists are proposing a boycott of next year’s Paralympic games in London, over links between the International Paralympic Committee and the company that tests disabled people’s “fitness to work” … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) need to work together to raise their profile and find ways to cope with a drastic fall in their income, disabled activists have been told. Meanwhile, new research aims … Continue reading →

A Liberal Democrat minister is to investigate why the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. The CPS decided two weeks ago – for … Continue reading →

A disabled man looks set to win an apology from the BBC after it admitted failing to provide him with an accessible way of lodging a complaint. John Cresswell-Plant was contacted by a local radio producer last year over a … Continue reading →

Campaigners have welcomed a high court judge’s ruling that a “minimally conscious” disabled woman should not have her life-supporting treatment withdrawn. The family of the woman, who has brain damage and is known as “M” for legal reasons, had told … Continue reading →

Demand for tickets for next year’s Paralympics in London has reached “unprecedented” levels, according to the 2012 organising committee. Between 9 and 26 September, 116,000 people applied for tickets to next summer’s games, applying for a total of 1.14 million … Continue reading →

Some companies that sell mobility aids are targeting disabled and older people with “unfair sales practices”, particularly when visiting them at home, according to a new report. The market study into mobility aids by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) … Continue reading →

A prominent disabled activist has launched a highly critical attack on Labour leader Ed Miliband during a televised question and answer session over his failure to speak out on the government’s hated “fitness for work” tests. The session took place … Continue reading →