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The first report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has shown how successive governments displayed a “criminally negligent” attitude towards protecting disabled people and other groups at risk from pandemics, according to disabled campaigners. Disabled people’s organisations said this week that it […]
Grassroots disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have expressed their frustration at being “shut out” of the Covid public inquiry. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has decided that 14 DPOs will not be allocated status as “core participants” in two crucial parts of the […]
Working-age people with both a hearing and visual impairment in England were nearly 12 times more likely to die due to Covid during the pandemic than people of the same age without such impairments, “shocking” new official figures have shown. The […]