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‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’
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A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is the clearest evidence yet that healthcare professionals working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are writing dishonest assessment reports. CeaJay Clem, from Gloucestershire, has chronic discoid lupus, which […]

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its promises not to harass a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. Last year, DWP publicly apologised – although not directly to David* […]

Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Transport

Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space
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The bus industry is facing fresh legal action over its failure to ensure disabled people have access to the designated wheelchair spaces on buses, six months after a Supreme Court judgment that campaigners hoped would finally settle the issue. The Supreme […]

Airports branded ‘poor’ on access over lack of consultation with disabled passengers

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Transport

Airports branded ‘poor’ on access over lack of consultation with disabled passengers
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One of the largest airports in the country has been branded one of the worst for accessibility, after it failed to consult with disabled people about how it could improve its services. Manchester Airport is one of just four in the […]

Tackle education, career stereotypes and flexible working to close pay gap, says EHRC

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Employment

Tackle education, career stereotypes and flexible working to close pay gap, says EHRC
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The equality watchdog has called for action to improve the education of disabled pupils, tackle career stereotypes and improve the availability of flexible working, in order to close the gap in average hourly pay between disabled and non-disabled people. The overall […]

Minister told ‘alarm bells are ringing’ over disability hate crime

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Crime

Minister told ‘alarm bells are ringing’ over disability hate crime
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Disabled campaigners have written to a government minister to warn him that “alarm bells are ringing” over the “massive discrepancies and inconsistencies” in the way the criminal justice system deals with disability hate crime prosecutions. The Disability Hate Crime Network says […]

PR industry ‘needs to confront failure to employ disabled people’

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Employment

PR industry ‘needs to confront failure to employ disabled people’
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The public relations (PR) sector needs to confront its failings over the employment of disabled people, according to new research by an industry insider. One UK PR company with more than 300 employees has admitted that it does not have a […]

Blind voters unable to vote secretly and independently at election, says survey

By John Pring on 17th August 2017 Category: Human Rights

Blind voters unable to vote secretly and independently at election, says survey
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Only one in four blind and partially-sighted people who voted in June’s general election was able to do so independently and in secret, according to a new report. The disability charity RNIB said its Turned Out 2017 report showed that blind […]

Recordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Recordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts
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A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma attacks, accidental overdoses and repeated blackouts, in one of the clearest examples yet of a dishonest benefits assessment report, secret recordings have revealed. A video recording of the assessment also shows […]

DPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Independent Living

DPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case
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A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has intervened in a “hugely significant” court of appeal hearing that is set to decide how far the government’s Care Act protects disabled people’s independent living and well-being.   Inclusion London is the first DPO to […]

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