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Airlines have ‘moral duty’ on wheelchair damage

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Transport

Airlines have ‘moral duty’ on wheelchair damage
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The equality watchdog’s disability commissioner has told UK airlines to “show leadership” and promise to pay full compensation to disabled passengers whose mobility equipment is damaged in transit. Lord [Chris] Holmes spoke out after it emerged that airlines were still relying […]

First figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

First figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’
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Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic aimed at reducing the number of disabled people claiming benefits, say campaigners. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally […]

Five disabled peers call for audio-visual systems for all new buses

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Transport

Five disabled peers call for audio-visual systems for all new buses
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Five disabled peers have called on the government to strengthen a new bill to ensure that all new buses have to be fitted with audio-visual announcements. They were taking part in last week’s second Lords reading of the bus services bill, […]

MPs back away from banning use of Tasers by police in mental health wards

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Human Rights

MPs back away from banning use of Tasers by police in mental health wards
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MPs have shied away from banning the use of Taser stun guns in psychiatric wards. The ban was proposed by the human rights campaign group Black Mental Health UK, and taken on by the Liberal Democrat MP and former care services […]

Concerns after Learning Disability England replaces user-led group

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Concerns after Learning Disability England replaces user-led group
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A group launched last year to represent people with learning difficulties across England has been scrapped and replaced by a non-user-led organisation that will be partly controlled by service-providers. People First England (PFE) was set up last year by Gary Bourlet, […]

Gould honoured for international DaDaFest work

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Gould honoured for international DaDaFest work
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A leading Deaf arts festival director has been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours after years of work that have seen her develop relationships with disabled artists from across the world. Ruth Gould (pictured), artistic director of Liverpool-based DaDaFest, has been […]

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE
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A mental health service-user who has been sectioned more than 30 times in the last 20 years has spoken of her shock at being recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours. Jan Rogers, who receives an MBE, believes the award came as […]

‘Alarming’ court decision on traffic lights ‘puts blind shoppers at risk’

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Independent Living

‘Alarming’ court decision on traffic lights ‘puts blind shoppers at risk’
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By Raya Al Jadir A Paralympic goalball star has lost his legal case against a council that switched off the traffic lights in a busy shopping area – in order to create a “shared space” street design – leaving him and […]

‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’

By John Pring on 9th June 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’
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The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than a decade is riddled with inconsistencies, misleading statements and “unevidenced” claims, according to three disabled academics. A new article by Professor Tom Shakespeare and Professor […]

UK government set for UN grilling in Geneva over ‘breaches of disability rights’

By John Pring on 9th June 2016 Category: Human Rights

UK government set for UN grilling in Geneva over ‘breaches of disability rights’
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The UK government is set to face a grilling from UN experts next week over its alleged breaches of international obligations on disabled people’s human rights. The government will be examined on Wednesday and Thursday (15 and 16 June) by the […]

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