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DPAC will use Paralympics to highlight austerity impact in week of action

By John Pring on 11th August 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC will use Paralympics to highlight austerity impact in week of action
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Disabled activists are to hold a week of action to coincide with the start of the Rio 2016 Paralympics, in a bid to highlight the impact of austerity-driven cuts on disability rights. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) hopes to use the […]

ROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance
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A campaigning alliance has called for disabled people and their organisations to join its fight to use the UN disability convention to defend attacks on their rights by the UK government. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) was holding its third […]

Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’

By John Pring on 21st July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’
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Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands of local and national government, according to a leading campaigner. Julie Jaye Charles (pictured), chief executive of Equalities National Council (ENC), […]

Protesters bring ‘rotten PIP’ message to the core of Westminster

By John Pring on 14th July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Protesters bring ‘rotten PIP’ message to the core of Westminster
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Disabled people across the country have marched stopped traffic and blocked the office entrances of government contractors as part of a national day of action that drew attention to a disability benefit they say is “rotten to the core”. Campaigners believe […]

Jobs focus and dropping user-led status could usher in new Purple reign, says Adams

By John Pring on 14th July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Jobs focus and dropping user-led status could usher in new Purple reign, says Adams
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One of the country’s leading disabled people’s organisations is to end its commitment to being a user-led charity in a bid to become a national player in the employment support market. Essex Coalition of Disabled People, which has been known for […]

‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’
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A disabled-led network set up by the minister for disabled people in 2012 to offer the government advice on the implementation of its disability policies has cut the areas it focuses on to just one “strategic theme”. Esther McVey, then the […]

BBC’s Gardner ‘wants normalisation’ for disabled people

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

BBC’s Gardner ‘wants normalisation’ for disabled people
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The BBC’s disabled security correspondent has spoken of his wish for a “normalisation of disability” in society. Frank Gardner, who was giving the third annual Jack Ashley Memorial Lecture, said he would like to see “the sharp edges of difference” between […]

Concerns after Learning Disability England replaces user-led group

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Concerns after Learning Disability England replaces user-led group
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A group launched last year to represent people with learning difficulties across England has been scrapped and replaced by a non-user-led organisation that will be partly controlled by service-providers. People First England (PFE) was set up last year by Gary Bourlet, […]

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mental health survivor’s shock at MBE
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A mental health service-user who has been sectioned more than 30 times in the last 20 years has spoken of her shock at being recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours. Jan Rogers, who receives an MBE, believes the award came as […]

‘Wake up!’ Baroness Campbell’s plea to disabled people over EU referendum apathy

By John Pring on 9th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Wake up!’ Baroness Campbell’s plea to disabled people over EU referendum apathy
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A leading peer has told disabled people to “wake up” to the reality that they could lose many of their hard-won rights if the UK votes to leave the European Union (EU) later this month. In an impassioned plea, Baroness [Jane] […]

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