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Disabled people’s organisations across the UK have suggested a range of ways in which they and their allies could fight back against the “deeply concerning” rise in hostile media coverage that is targeting disabled people. Following a series of dehumanising and […]
A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty. The film for Channel 4’s Dispatches, presented by Fraser […]
The new government has refused to say if it will introduce laws aimed at improving protection for disabled air passengers, after a powerful new documentary exposed the repeated discrimination they face. Sophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly, broadcast on Monday by Channel […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not questioned about an autistic man’s suicide at an inquest, despite the bundle of evidence presented to the coroner containing multiple distressing messages he had scrawled on letters about his benefits. A police […]
Channel 4’s coverage of this summer’s Paralympics in Tokyo will be a vital opportunity to put disabled people and disability back onto the mainstream agenda, according to one of its disabled presenters. The broadcaster announced this week that more than 70 […]
Channel 4 and BBC have attempted to justify plans to broadcast two separate fly-on-the-wall documentary series based in jobcentres, both of which could enable ministers to continue their campaign to undermine critical reporting on their “toxic” universal credit benefit system. Only […]
The television broadcasting industry needs to do more to increase the number of disabled people within its workforce, the regulator has warned, with new figures showing progress has stalled. In its third annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report, Ofcom […]
As few as one per cent of the employees working for some UK broadcasters have described themselves as disabled people, according to new research by the industry regulator. Ofcom’s Diversity And Equal Opportunities In Television report says disabled people appear to […]
We’re just a week away now from the start of the Rio Paralympics, an event that for disabled people – depending on their viewpoint – is somewhere between a glorious celebration of sporting endeavour and a loathsome festival of ‘inspiration porn’. Chief […]
The disabled chair of the organisation that will manage Britain’s team at September’s Paralympic Games in Brazil has explained how it plans to use their sporting performances in Rio and beyond to “inspire a better world for disabled people”. Tim Reddish, […]