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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught lying twice in a television interview about the impact of his reforms on disabled people, even managing to contradict his own special adviser. Iain Duncan Smith has been a focus of […]
Disabled activists and other campaigners took part in a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice this week to support the latest legal bid to halt the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Two ILF-users – Gabriel Pepper and John […]
The country’s leading disabled-led theatre group has had to cancel international work, while its artistic director now fears for her career, because of cuts and delays in dealing with applications to the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme. The problems faced […]
Secret government cuts to its Access to Work (AtW) programme have put at risk a disabled manager’s job with a leading user-led organisation. Berni Vincent has been working for Spectrum Centre for Independent Living – formerly Southampton Centre for Independent Living […]
The government has threatened to remove Access to Work funding from a high-profile disabled consultant, because he cannot prove he is self-employed, even though he has been working for himself for the last 16 years. Simon Stevens was presented with a […]
Some police forces are still recording as few as three or four disability hate crimes every year, according to new Home Office figures. Despite significant public and media attention over at least six years – and an overall increase in recorded […]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a plan aimed at increasing the number of disability hate crimes it prosecutes successfully, after new figures showed this fell last year. The CPS figures show that the number of successful convictions fell in […]
Disgraced Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius could run again professionally long before the end of his five-year prison sentence, according to Britain’s best-known Paralympian. This week, Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison, although he is unlikely to serve the full […]
Local authorities across the UK have cut spending on making their workplaces accessible for disabled employees, as a result of the coalition’s spending cuts, according to new research. The study found that previous “generally good” practice among 33 local authorities examined […]
The government has admitted that its planned cuts and reforms to disability-related higher education support will have a “negative impact” on disabled students, and increase the chance of them facing discrimination at university. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) […]