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New doubts have surfaced about the ability of a controversial US company to make improvements to the “fitness for work” assessment system, after it appears to have won the contract by drastically under-cutting its competitor. The fight to take over the […]
Disabled activists say they have “no choice” but to attend a protest outside the House of Lords to demonstrate their opposition to a bill that seeks to legalise assisted suicide. Lord Falconer’s assisted dying bill returns to the Lords for the […]
A leading national disabled people’s organisation is facing angry criticism from activists over its links with the disability insurance industry. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week that Disability Rights UK (DR UK) was under fire for agreeing to work with […]
Disabled activists fighting moves to legalise assisted suicide have warned that a court case that saw a hospital secure permission to withdraw fluids from a disabled 12-year-old girl it was treating proves that such deaths are becoming more acceptable. The death […]
The failure of Work Programme contractors to provide enough employment support to disabled people and other “harder-to-help” benefit claimants is “a scandal”, according to the chair of an influential committee of MPs. Labour MP Margaret Hodge said the government’s decision to […]
Many sports clubs across England and Wales are “clearly” in breach of equality laws, according to the boss of two charities that fight for the rights of disabled sports fans. Joyce Cook was speaking at the opening of the new offices […]
Leading figures in the self-advocacy movement hope that a new campaigning alliance will help to hold political parties and the government to account in the run-up to the next election. Learning Disability Alliance England will be launched in Manchester later this […]
Campaigners will be outside the Royal Courts of Justice this week for the start of an appeal which should finally provide a definitive ruling on disabled people’s right to access wheelchair spaces on buses. The case is being brought by First […]
A national disability charity has welcomed new European Union (EU) funding which will boost plans to promote England as a “leading destination for accessible tourism”. VisitEngland the national travel board, will develop and promote access in partnership with tourism bosses in […]
Furious parents have accused a council of ignoring repeated allegations of neglect and abuse of disabled children in two of its schools. Disability News Service (DNS) has spoken to six families, all of whom have complained about the way their children […]