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News stories about crimes against disabled people in the mainstream media still too often use disablist language, blame the victim, and portray the disabled person as a “burden”, according to a new report. Inclusion London’s report, Disability, Crime and Hate Crime […]
Disabled campaigners have called for action to address systemic failings in the criminal justice system and serious failures of police leadership that have led to an “alarming” fall in the number of disability hate crime cases being prosecuted. Since 2016-17, the […]
Statistics that show that less than 350 disability hate crimes were prosecuted last year “make for woeful reading”, the Crown Prosecution Service’s national hate crime lead has told Disability News Service (DNS). As recently as 2016-17, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) […]
The performance of police forces across the country in providing justice for victims of disability hate crime is not good enough and must improve, the organisation representing senior police officers has finally admitted. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) admitted its […]
The number of disability hate crime cases passed by police forces to prosecutors plummeted by a fifth last year, despite the number of allegations reported by disabled people rising by more than 40 per cent. Police forces across England and Wales […]
A major investigation by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has called for tougher inspection and oversight of residential special schools, after hearing how some teachers exploited their positions to groom and abuse disabled pupils. A report on the […]
Police forces and local authorities must do more to protect disabled children from the risk of child sexual exploitation, according to a major investigation by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. The inquiry’s report, published this week, says that children […]
The decade-long battle for tougher laws on disability hate crime moved a step closer this week after the Law Commission announced a series of measures that would make it easier to secure convictions, if its recommendations are accepted by the government. […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are calling for an urgent inquiry into the “systemic failure” by the Metropolitan police in how it responds to reports of disability hate crime. A new report says the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been guilty of […]
“Alarming” official figures show how police forces are repeatedly letting disabled people down by failing to investigate disability hate crime properly, leading campaigners warned this week. They spoke out after Disability News Service (DNS) revealed how figures showed that prosecutions of […]