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The minister for disabled people has been urged by his Labour shadow to take urgent action to tackle the lengthy backlogs and delays plaguing the government’s new disability benefit. Labour’s Kate Green said in her letter to Mark Harper this week […]
The Mental Health Resistance Network considers Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) to be a profound violation of human rights and we regard the use of forced medication to be a violent assault. In the UK we do not inflict physical punishment on […]
Users of the Independent Living Fund, including Anne Pridmore (centre with red hat) were outside the Royal Courts of Justice with other disabled activists in March 2013. Pridmore and four other ILF-users were asking the high court to overturn government plans […]
The care watchdog is facing allegations of a cover-up, after refusing to answer key questions about how it dealt with the fall-out from a day centre abuse scandal. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was told last year that nursing assistant Susan […]
A police force has been criticised by a watchdog for the fourth time in three years over its policies and procedures on disability. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found poor performance by staff of Greater Manchester police (GMP), following an […]
Disabled sports stars and campaigners have praised Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, pointing to impressive levels of access and the successful integration of mainstream and para-sports events. Disabled competitors from the five para-sports that were included in the games – athletics, powerlifting, track […]
Three disabled people have won permission for a new legal attempt to derail the government’s planned closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Stuart Bracking, Gabriel Pepper and John Aspinall want the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to withdraw its […]
Only a small proportion of local authorities in England have put plans in place to ring-fence the money they will receive when the government shuts down the Independent Living Fund (ILF) next June, according to a new survey. Just 10 of […]
A UN committee is set to postpone its public examination of how the UK is implementing the disability convention until after next year’s general election. The decision will mean that the coalition will avoid the potential embarrassment of a high-profile discussion […]
The government should scrap laws that force people with mental distress to be treated against their will in their own homes, according to leading disabled campaigners. Community treatment orders (CTOs) – where service-users are forced to take medication, but do not […]