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New Year Honours: Maynard hopes CBE will help her spread inclusion message

By John Pring on 9th January 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

New Year Honours: Maynard hopes CBE will help her spread inclusion message
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A leading consultant on inclusion is hoping that being awarded a CBE will help in her quest to push for change in mainstream organisations that will benefit disabled people across society. Dr Alice Maynard is one of many disabled people recognised […]

New Year Honours: Campaigner celebrates OBE… and success in thalidomide quest

By John Pring on 9th January 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

New Year Honours: Campaigner celebrates OBE… and success in thalidomide quest
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A disabled campaigner – recognised with an OBE in the latest new year honours list – has finally secured a location for a memorial to those affected by the thalidomide scandal. Author, broadcaster and disability consultant Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds said she was […]

Harper dodges questions over delays in closing assessment centre

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

Harper dodges questions over delays in closing assessment centre
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The minister for disabled people is facing awkward questions over why he has delayed responding to concerns about the government’s pledge to close an inaccessible assessment centre. Mike Penning promised in June that the government would shut the centre used by […]

Rights take centre stage in UK on UN’s international day

By John Pring on 5th December 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Human Rights, News Archive

Rights take centre stage in UK on UN’s international day
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The launch of a bid to produce a new disabled people’s manifesto for Wales was among events held this week to celebrate the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). The launch was held on 3 December by Disability Wales […]

New alliance ‘will hold political parties to account’

By John Pring on 7th November 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive, Politics

New alliance ‘will hold political parties to account’
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Leading figures in the self-advocacy movement hope that a new campaigning alliance will help to hold political parties and the government to account in the run-up to the next election. Learning Disability Alliance England will be launched in Manchester later this […]

Disability Rights UK staves off threat from pensions black hole

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

Disability Rights UK staves off threat from pensions black hole
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A national disabled people’s organisation appears to have staved off threatened closure, after reaching a tentative agreement with a statutory body to take on responsibility for its massive pensions deficit. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) says it has an unsustainable pensions […]

ILF-users back in court for fresh attempt to stop ‘regressive’ closure decision

By John Pring on 24th October 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Independent Living, News Archive

ILF-users back in court for fresh attempt to stop ‘regressive’ closure decision
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Disabled activists and other campaigners took part in a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice this week to support the latest legal bid to halt the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Two ILF-users – Gabriel Pepper and John […]

Assist UK to end 40 years of advice and support as funding runs out

By John Pring on 3rd October 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Independent Living, News Archive

Assist UK to end 40 years of advice and support as funding runs out
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A national user-led organisation has become the latest disability charity to be forced to close because of a government failure to provide funding for day-to-day running costs. The closure of Assist UK, which leads the national network of disabled living centres, […]

Labour party conference: Activists ensure disabled people’s voices are heard

By John Pring on 26th September 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive, Politics

Labour party conference: Activists ensure disabled people’s voices are heard
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Two groups of activists helped ensure that the voices of disabled people were heard by MPs and shadow ministers during this week’s Labour party conference. In contrast to previous party conferences, where fringe meetings have usually been dominated by charity lobbyists, […]

Council thinks again over POhWER contract

By John Pring on 12th September 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

Council thinks again over POhWER contract
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A local authority has been persuaded to think again over its decision to award a contract to a national charity at the expense of a local disabled people’s organisation (DPO). Real has been providing direct payments support to disabled people in […]

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