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Catherine Hale lies on a sofa as she works on her laptop

July 5, 2018 0

Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement

A disabled researcher has suggested a way to bring the hundreds of thousands of people with chronic illness under the umbrella of the disabled people’s movement. Catherine Hale (pictured), who has lived with a diagnosis of ME for nearly 30 years, hopes that her new discussion paper will build bridges between the disabled people’s

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Ministry of Justice sign on the wall of a building, overlooked by windows

June 28, 2018 0

Campaigner defeats third government department on accessible information

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A disabled campaigner has won his third legal case against separate government departments over their failure to provide information in accessible formats. Graham Kirwan had already secured victories over the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health. DWP previously paid him £1,700 damages for refusing to communicate by email over

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June 28, 2018 0

Office for Disability Issues ‘taking no action’ to halt closure of DPOs

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The government’s Office for Disability Issues is apparently failing to take any action to address “worrying” concerns about disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that are being forced to close because of funding problems. Earlier this month, two prominent user-led organisations spoke out about the “urgent” need for research into the falling number of DPOs across

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June 21, 2018 0

Ground-breaking co-production report ‘creates blueprint for national change’

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A “ground-breaking” report on co-production has created a blueprint for disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across the country to push for change from their own local authorities. Disabled campaigners yesterday called for the report of the Hammersmith and Fulham Disabled People’s Commission to be shared with other local authorities and DPOs. Speaking at its launch

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June 14, 2018 0

Call for national research as fears grow over loss of DPOs

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There is an “urgent” need for research into the hidden issue of disabled people’s organisations across the country that are being forced to close because of funding problems, say campaigners. Shaping Our Lives (SOL), the national network of service users and disabled people, spoke out this week after further “worrying” figures showing the falling

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May 17, 2018 0

WOW Campaign is back, and pushing for a second House of Commons debate

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Disabled campaigners are relaunching the WOW Campaign in a bid to secure a debate in the House of Commons on the need for the government to assess the financial damage caused to disabled people through its cuts and reforms. Four years ago, nearly 105,000 people signed a petition launched by the WOW Campaign that

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May 10, 2018 0

New fund will empower disabled women as memorial to Firman and Partridge

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A disabled women’s collective hopes that a “ground-breaking” new memorial fund will empower disabled women by paying the costs of attending events they would otherwise not be able to visit. The memorial fund* is being set up by Sisters of Frida (SoF) to remember Eleanor Firman and Sophie Partridge, who were both members of

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Lisney, Buxton, Hart and Brothers (and her guide dog) outside 10 Downing Street

May 3, 2018 0

Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

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The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election but has been closed for the last three years. The announcement came in response to a legal letter sent on behalf of three disabled politicians, Labour’s Emily

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People sit around a table talking, with others in the background

May 3, 2018 0

Pioneering commission of disabled people sets council on path to true co-production

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A pioneering inquiry by a commission of disabled people is set to lead to a London borough becoming a beacon for local authorities on how to work together with service-users to co-produce policies and services. The report by the Hammersmith and Fulham Disabled People’s Commission focuses on how to remove the barriers disabled people

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A man speaks to a conference in front of a detailed picture diagram

May 3, 2018 0

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

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A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is facing closure next month if it cannot secure new funding, after becoming the latest victim of competition from large, non-user-led charities and private sector organisations. The threat to the future of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), which was established in 2009, comes

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