Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a […]
Activism and Campaigning
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RNIB has ‘washed its hands’ of braille users after ending free service, says blind campaigner

A disabled campaigner claims the disability charity RNIB has “washed its hands” of those with the most significant levels of visual impairment, after scrapping its long-established free braille transcription service. Connor Scott-Gardner (pictured), a blind campaigner from Leeds, has accused RNIB […]