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Government policies on social care, health and benefits risk sending disabled people sliding back to “the bad old days of dependency, isolation and poverty”, a disabled peer has warned. In a Lords debate on the Queen’s speech, Baroness [Jane] Campbell urged […]
The two front-runners to become Labour’s new leader have both evaded repeated attempts to clarify their position on social security cuts and support for disabled people. Both Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall have recently made comments that suggest they back right-wing […]
A talented Scottish teenager has described how her dreams of Paralympic glory may have been dashed by the government’s disability living allowance (DLA) cuts and reforms. Kayleigh Haggo has been told that she will lose her entitlement to a Motability vehicle […]
More campaigners have added their voices to calls for a new national organisation of disabled people that they hope would bring together the “fragmented” disability movement. The idea is still being widely discussed, even though at least two of the campaigners […]
A company that used the online marketplace eBay to advertise a “vile” car bumper sticker that suggested disabled people were faking their impairments has been forced to apologise and withdraw it from sale. The £2.50 sticker featured the traditional wheelchair symbol, […]
One of the country’s longest-running disabled people’s organisations is facing upheaval, after the resignation of its co-chair and two senior executives. The Limbless Association’s (LA) Facebook page has been deleted and the members’ forum on its website is not currently operating. […]
Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years disabled campaigners have warned in the wake of this week’s Queen’s speech. The speech, which laid out plans for what the prime […]
Football’s Premier League has been criticised by disabled fans and the equality watchdog after defending clubs that have failed to provide enough wheelchair-accessible spaces in their grounds. Surveys have found that most Premier League grounds are falling far short of the […]
A disabled MSP has helped persuade colleagues to throw out proposals to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland. Labour’s Siobhan McMahon (pictured) told the Scottish parliament that discussions about the assisted suicide (Scotland) bill had added to the demonisation of disabled people. […]
The criminal justice system’s continuing failings on disability hate crime have been highlighted by the sentencing of a brutal murderer, just 24 hours after the publication of a highly-critical new report by three watchdogs. Clare Humble, 50, from Bedlington, near Newcastle, […]