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The “vast majority” of important COVID-19-related information provided by the UK government is not accessible to users of British Sign Language (BSL), a new investigation has found. A report on the investigation will be submitted by lawyers for BSL-user Katie Rowley […]
Disabled people’s equality and human rights have been “deeply undermined” during the COVID-19 pandemic, a disabled activist and peer has told an annual lecture. But Baroness [Jane] Campbell also told the online audience for the annual Caroline Gooding Memorial Lecture that […]
Disabled people should resist the idea that life should return to “normal” once the pandemic crisis is over, and instead push to “radically overhaul” the way society is organised, according to a leading disabled activist and academic. Dr Miro Griffiths (pictured) […]
The government’s decision to put some people with impairments higher on the list of “priority groups” to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has been welcomed as a victory for disabled people’s campaigning. This week, the government announced that the first vaccine – […]
Labour has apologised after it admitted that a meeting held to mark the international day of disabled people was inaccessible to some disabled people. The meeting was hosted by Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, Vicky Foxcroft, and aimed to gather […]
A disabled peer and retired Paralympian has warned that she has lost patience with progress on disability rights, and will scream in the face of the next person who tells her London 2012 changed the world for disabled people. Baroness [Tanni] […]
A petition signed by nearly 120,000 people who want to see a £20 a week uplift given to universal credit claimants extended to those on other benefits has been handed to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. The increase, which also applies to […]
Disabled campaigners this week celebrated the activists whose efforts helped lead to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), while highlighting the continuing flaws in equality legislation and the need to continue the fight for comprehensive civil rights. They were speaking out on […]
A new independent user-led organisation – modelled on a trade union – is hoping to provide disabled people with a collective voice powerful enough to influence policy at a national level, while also offering them solutions to their disability-related problems. The […]
Nearly 100 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across the UK have secured more than £1 million in funding to help them deliver grassroots emergency support to disabled people during the pandemic. A total of £1,092,906 of funding from the National Emergencies Trust […]