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A new Department for Work and Pensions overpayments scandal could be brewing, after a series of reports that disabled people receiving certain benefits are being overpaid universal credit. Disabled researcher and campaigner Caroline Richardson has been made aware of multiple cases […]
Disabled people’s organisations have expressed shock and alarm at the disability minister’s “completely unacceptable” decision to impose gagging orders on members of his new “independent” advisory panel. The panel, led by disabled campaigner Zara Todd, will advise Sir Stephen Timms and […]
Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the significant harm he caused, after he was finally struck off by a tribunal. For years, Chris Fry (pictured), from Sheffield, took on discrimination […]
Retail giant Marks and Spencer has agreed to pay compensation and make changes to at least one of its stores after installing chilled food cabinets with inaccessible doors that prevented a disabled campaigner from accessing any of the contents. Flick Williams […]
An exhibition that will travel the country to celebrate the “past, present and future” of the railways will be inaccessible to many disabled people who use mobility scooters, because Network Rail has used carriages that are more than 30 years old. […]
A train company’s “action plan” to improve its much-criticised passenger assistance services has been given a lukewarm reception by disabled campaigners. The Office of Rail and Road, the rail regulator, has told Northern that its latest plan for improving the assistance […]
Disabled campaigners have questioned the government’s decision to appoint a senior rail executive as one of its new disability and access ambassadors. Alison Smith, the accessibility and inclusion lead for the Great British Railways Transition Team, who previously had a similar […]
Allowing Network Rail to build an inaccessible footbridge in north Yorkshire would set “a bad and dangerous precedent” for its plans for other parts of the country, a disabled activist has told a public inquiry. Flick Williams was one of several […]
Network Rail has been forced into a “deeply troubling” admission that it has no idea how many inaccessible footbridges it is planning to build across Britain, while claiming it is too time-consuming and expensive to find out. The public body, which […]
A “hugely important” public inquiry into Network Rail’s plan to build an inaccessible footbridge will be a “line in the sand” for disabled activists who are determined to fight further such proposals. They believe Network Rail plans to build other inaccessible […]