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Rail travel has become less accessible since pandemic and cost-of-living crises, researchers are told

By John Pring on 5th June 2025 Category: Transport

Rail travel has become less accessible since pandemic and cost-of-living crises, researchers are told
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There are fewer staff at stations and ticket counters and increased ticket prices since the emergence of the Covid pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, disabled rail passengers have told researchers for a government report. Some of those interviewed for the research* […]

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting
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The disability minister has been accused of a “shocking lack of empathy” after walking past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about government plans to cut disability benefits by billions of pounds. Representatives […]

Access to Work cuts risk ‘decimating’ disability arts movement, disabled artists and consultants warn

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Employment

Access to Work cuts risk ‘decimating’ disability arts movement, disabled artists and consultants warn
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Cuts and reforms to the Access to Work system pose an “existential threat” and risk “decimating” the disability arts movement in Britain, disabled artists, companies and consultants are warning this week. As pressure grows on the Labour government over its Pathways […]

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Employment

‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’
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A leading disabled artist has been forced to stop working by “devastating” and “destructive” cuts to the Labour government’s Access to Work disability employment programme. Jess Thom (pictured this week) has had to halt her work with Touretteshero after AtW cut […]

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Housing

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many
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Thousands of disabled people could lose out on thousands of pounds a year in housing benefit – and face eviction – because of the government’s cuts to disability benefits, but ministers have no idea how many will lose out and risk […]

Anger at Network Rail for ‘shocking’ exclusion of scooter-users from ‘future of railways’ exhibition

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Transport

Anger at Network Rail for ‘shocking’ exclusion of scooter-users from ‘future of railways’ exhibition
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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. […]

‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts

By John Pring on 29th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts
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Disabled public figures behind a new campaign to persuade the government to back down on its “inhumane and catastrophic” plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits say they are overwhelmed by the response since its launch. Tuesday’s launch saw […]

Disabled MP drops support for assisted dying bill over ‘broken’ social care and health services

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Politics

Disabled MP drops support for assisted dying bill over ‘broken’ social care and health services
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A disabled MP has dropped his support for the assisted suicide bill, largely because of concerns that “broken” social care and palliative care services could push terminally-ill people into seeking an assisted death. Steve Darling told Disability News Service (DNS) this […]

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mass lobby of MPs marks ‘important’ moment in fight against Labour’s benefit cuts
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Disabled people from across the UK converged on parliament yesterday to challenge their MPs in face-to-face meetings about the government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits. Disabled activists travelled from Northern Ireland, from Wales – including a group of Disability Wales members […]

Welsh government’s disability rights plan ‘is a smokescreen’ to hide lack of teeth and targets

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Human Rights

Welsh government’s disability rights plan ‘is a smokescreen’ to hide lack of teeth and targets
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The Welsh government has been accused of putting up a “smokescreen” after publishing a draft disability rights plan that lacks “teeth” and is full instead of pledges to carry out reviews and produce guidance while offering no new money. The 10-year […]

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