Nearly 250 new wheelchair-accessible flats and houses should be available for disabled people to rent or buy on the Olympic Park after the London 2012 games, the public body responsible for building the athletes’ village has revealed. More than a quarter […]
Disability History Month ‘will be standard-bearer for rights’
Disabled activists are set to launch the first UK Disability History Month (DHM), with backing from more than 40 organisations. The aim is to encourage schools and colleges, as well as the media, unions, employers and public bodies, to raise the […]
Diplomat loses legal fight over reasonable adjustments
A high-flying diplomat’s career is “in limbo” after she lost a disability discrimination case against the Foreign Office over the support she needed to do her job in a new posting. Jane Cordell who is profoundly Deaf, had been offered the […]
Campaigners’ shock over metal ‘cage’ for pupil with autism
A Scottish local authority that built a metal “cage” for a teenager with autism to use during break times has been heavily criticised by a disabled people’s organisation. Western Isles council blamed the decision to build the pen – made of […]
DaDaFest set to export successful festival formula
This year’s DaDaFest – the world’s largest disability and Deaf arts festival – is set to attract talent from across the world to Liverpool later this month. Among the highlights of the annual festival are Beyond Sight, an exhibition of photography […]
Treasury ‘kept ODI in the dark’ over DLA cut
The government failed to tell its own expert disability department about its plans to cut a key mobility-based disability benefit until just hours before the measure was announced, a disabled peer has revealed. Baroness [Jane] Campbell told fellow peers that the […]
DLA mobility cut is ‘shameful’ and ‘obscene’, say disabled people
Disabled people say that government plans to remove a key mobility-based disability benefit from residents of care homes will tear away their “last shred of independence”. George Osborne, the chancellor, announced in this month’s spending review that disabled people living in […]
Government admits Work Choice numbers ‘are lower’
The government has admitted that its new work programme, aimed at providing intensive support for those facing the highest employment barriers, will help far fewer disabled people than it previously suggested. Launching Work Choice this week, the government said the voluntary […]
‘Serious concerns’ over council implementation of personal budgets
A national charity that helped develop the idea of personal budgets has raised “serious concerns” about the way they are being introduced by some local authorities. In Control, which helps councils deliver personalised services, said some authorities were restricting how disabled […]
NCIL members vote for merger to ‘keep independent living alive’
The National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL) has taken a large step towards a merger with two other leading disability organisations, after members were warned it was unlikely to survive on its own. Despite several concerns raised by disabled activists at […]