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Premier League football clubs would be guilty of a “scandalous” failure if they do not use some of a multi-billion pound TV rights windfall to improve access at their grounds according to the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner. The Conservative peer Lord […]
A disabled campaigner has won backing from the equality watchdog to continue his legal battle to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has decided to support wheelchair-user Doug Paulley’s appeal to […]
The prime minister has been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting that his constituency office in Oxfordshire is not accessible to many disabled people. The office in High Street, Witney, is on the first floor of a building with no lifts, a […]
A disabled woman has told how she has been forced to wait more than 14 months to be assessed for the government’s new disability benefit just days after a Tory minister praised his own performance in cutting waiting-times. Hannah Wells, from […]
An “incompetent” council apparently failed to take disciplinary action against any members of staff following allegations of serious ill-treatment and neglect of disabled people at a day centre. A serious case review, published last week, described incidents of alleged “humiliation, ostracising, […]
Four of the UK’s leading pan-disability organisations have secured £5 million in lottery funding for a major series of research projects on independent living. The Big Lottery Fund has given the money to Disability Action Northern Ireland, and its research partners […]
A Labour MP has said she is “shocked” that a senior civil servant will not be examining whether there is evidence that the government was to blame over any of 49 benefit-related deaths. Labour MP Debbie Abrahams spoke out after Disability […]
A leading self-advocate has described the announcement that NHS England is to close some of the remaining hospitals that provide in-patient mental health beds for people with learning difficulties as “long overdue” and still not good enough. The surprise announcement by […]
Short-cuts introduced to reduce the backlog of applications for the government’s new disability benefit have made it easier to reject claims, according to the main union representing Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff. The union’s evidence suggests that efforts to […]
The disabled woman hoping to become the first transgender person to be elected to parliament has spoken of her battle to win an apology from The Sun newspaper, in a speech to an historic university debating society. She was speaking as […]