Direct action pledge after DWP pays tabloid to air-brush universal credit
Disabled activists are to target a tabloid newspaper with direct action after it signed an…
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Panel seeks DPOs for pioneering partnership with mayor
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across Greater Manchester have been given the chance to take part…
Protest Power Tour holds out hope for activists who can’t leave home
A group of grassroots campaigners have taken fellow disabled activists on a tour of the…
Council accused of ‘settling scores’ after cutting funding from DPO that criticised it
A council has been accused of being “vindictive” and trying to “silence” a disabled people’s…
Disabled activists’ bid to find northern DPOs could ‘combat London bias’
A new disabled people’s organisation (DPO) is hoping to bring together DPOs from across the…
User-led advice centre set to close its doors after NHS funding blow
A disabled people’s organisation is set to have to close the doors of its advice…
Autistic campaigners to protest outside charity over regime of care home abuse
Autistic campaigners are to protest outside the headquarters of a national autism charity next week…
Domestic violence services even worse 10 years on, says report
Regressive government policies have disproportionately affected the ability of disabled women who have experienced violence…
Professor Mike Oliver: Outpouring of admiration for social model pioneer
The death of the disabled academic who first defined the “social model of disability” has…
Job losses at Disability Rights UK as user-led funding squeeze tightens
A national disabled people’s organisation has had to make cuts of nearly 20 per cent…