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Four disabled people have launched a legal action against the government over its “disrespectful” and “unlawful” approach to seeking their views on the proposed national disability strategy. The four claimants say that a controversial survey, carried out by the Disability Unit, […]
The government has been forced to make a series of promises aimed at improving the accessibility of the way it communicates with those shielding from coronavirus. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made the concessions hours before it was […]
A disabled people’s organisation is hoping that its community journalism project will help amplify the voices of disabled people and empower them to tell their own stories. The Camden Disabled People’s Voices project is training disabled people as community journalists, who […]
Proposed new anti-protest laws pose a threat to free speech and are an attempt to silence and control protesters, disabled activists have warned. Disabled people who have taken part in protests organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and the Extinction […]
Outraged disabled activists have criticised a left-wing media organisation for publishing an interview with a philosopher who has repeatedly advocated killing disabled babies, and for failing to challenge him on his views. Novara Media’s video interview with Peter Singer focused on […]
A leading Deaf campaigner has welcomed the government’s “long, long overdue” announcement that it will finally change the law to allow Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to serve on juries. David Buxton (pictured) has spent a decade campaigning […]
The Treasury and Downing Street have rejected deliveries of appeals from disabled people for ministers to pay attention to their urgent need for an increase in their benefits, after the evidence was delivered to their front doors. Personal accounts from disabled […]
The government’s Disability Unit has caused widespread anger after asking non-disabled people – in a survey that will influence its new disability strategy – if they would be “happy to have a physical relationship with a disabled person”. Disabled campaigners described […]
Three separate user-led groups have questioned the government’s “unforgivable” failure to ensure that disabled people with underlying health conditions are treated as a priority for the COVID-19 vaccination programme. They fear that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of disabled people […]
Nearly 100 disability organisations and allies have called on the government to scrap its rushed, inaccessible, over-long and poorly-planned national survey of disabled people. It is the third letter sent to ministers by disabled-led organisations in the last month to raise […]