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Disabled people ‘must create a drumbeat’ to promote radical new manifesto

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people ‘must create a drumbeat’ to promote radical new manifesto
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Disabled people’s organisations have been urged to “make a hell of a lot of noise” to promote a radical new manifesto that would tackle “the root causes of our oppression” if adopted by the next government. The Disabled People’s Manifesto calls […]

Anger over ‘clueless’ government’s ‘completely misguided’ awareness campaign

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Anger over ‘clueless’ government’s ‘completely misguided’ awareness campaign
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Disabled campaigners have asked why the government is spending money on a “potentially damaging” and “completely misguided” awareness-raising campaign that aims to stop non-disabled people making “assumptions” about people’s impairments. One of the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that were backing the […]

Disabled man in fourth week of hunger strike over ‘inhuman’ Home Office facility

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Human Rights

Disabled man in fourth week of hunger strike over ‘inhuman’ Home Office facility
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A man with significant long-term health conditions is in the fourth week of a hunger strike over “inhuman” conditions at a former Essex care home that is being used to house more than 50 disabled people seeking asylum. The Home Office […]

DWP failed to research why benefit spending rose before announcing ‘horrendous’ cuts

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP failed to research why benefit spending rose before announcing ‘horrendous’ cuts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted making no attempt to research why spending on out-of-work disability benefits has risen significantly in recent years, despite planning “horrendously dangerous” cuts after the next election. Earlier this month, work and pensions […]

Liberal Democrats edge ahead of Labour on charging, with free personal care pledge

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Independent Living

Liberal Democrats edge ahead of Labour on charging, with free personal care pledge
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The Liberal Democrats have promised to introduce free personal care for all adults if they win power at the next general election, although there are question-marks over key details of their pledge. Party members this week approved a £5 billion-a-year plan […]

Movement now has ‘powerful voice’ to challenge oppression, conference hears

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Movement now has ‘powerful voice’ to challenge oppression, conference hears
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The disability movement now has a “powerful voice” to challenge oppression, the first major in-person gathering of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in England for seven years has heard. DPOs from across England gathered in Manchester on Friday* for the launch of […]

Burnham pledges to challenge Labour leaders over broken promise on rights

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Human Rights

Burnham pledges to challenge Labour leaders over broken promise on rights
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have secured a promise from Greater Manchester’s mayor that he will ask his party why it dropped a promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election. Andy Burnham […]

Successful care charging campaign ‘led to huge change’ in co-produced policy

By John Pring on 28th September 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Successful care charging campaign ‘led to huge change’ in co-produced policy
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A disabled activist has told a major conference of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) how a successful campaign to end discriminatory care charges in a London borough has led to powerful change in other key areas of independent living. Kevin Caulfield told […]

Network Rail admits: ‘We have no idea how many inaccessible bridges we’re building’

By John Pring on 21st September 2023 Category: Transport

Network Rail admits: ‘We have no idea how many inaccessible bridges we’re building’
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Network Rail has been forced into a “deeply troubling” admission that it has no idea how many inaccessible footbridges it is planning to build across Britain, while claiming it is too time-consuming and expensive to find out. The public body, which […]

Anger as Labour omits ‘vital’ promise on disability rights from policy document

By John Pring on 21st September 2023 Category: Politics

Anger as Labour omits ‘vital’ promise on disability rights from policy document
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Labour has broken its promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election, according to confidential party policy documents. The party was insisting until at least July this year that a Labour government […]

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Disabled people ‘must create a drumbeat’ to promote radical new manifesto

Anger over ‘clueless’ government’s ‘completely misguided’ awareness campaign

Disabled man in fourth week of hunger strike over ‘inhuman’ Home Office facility

DWP failed to research why benefit spending rose before announcing ‘horrendous’ cuts

Liberal Democrats edge ahead of Labour on charging, with free personal care pledge

Movement now has ‘powerful voice’ to challenge oppression, conference hears

Burnham pledges to challenge Labour leaders over broken promise on rights

Successful care charging campaign ‘led to huge change’ in co-produced policy

Network Rail admits: ‘We have no idea how many inaccessible bridges we’re building’

Anger as Labour omits ‘vital’ promise on disability rights from policy document

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