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DPO’s community journalist project ‘will amplify voices’

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPO’s community journalist project ‘will amplify voices’
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A disabled people’s organisation is hoping that its community journalism project will help amplify the voices of disabled people and empower them to tell their own stories. The Camden Disabled People’s Voices project is training disabled people as community journalists, who […]

Tourist attraction could face legal action after ‘years of access failings’

By John Pring on 22nd August 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Tourist attraction could face legal action after ‘years of access failings’
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A world-renowned London tourist attraction could soon be facing legal action after failing for years to address its glaring access flaws, according to a former adviser. Disabled broadcaster, journalist and access consultant Mik Scarlet said it was “shocking” that a top […]

Councils refuse to use suicide prevention plans to highlight ‘shocking’ ESA figures

By John Pring on 11th January 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Councils refuse to use suicide prevention plans to highlight ‘shocking’ ESA figures
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Local authorities in England are refusing to use their own suicide prevention plans to highlight “shocking” figures that show claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. The figures, published in September […]

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