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‘Potent’ billboard art will highlight disabled people’s ‘many costs of living’

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

‘Potent’ billboard art will highlight disabled people’s ‘many costs of living’
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Four “potent” and “extraordinary” works of art produced by disabled artists in response to the cost-of-living crisis are to be displayed on billboards across five British cities next week. The Many Costs of Living exhibition offers a response to the disproportionate […]

Government’s white paper ignores key demands from disabled fans

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government’s white paper ignores key demands from disabled fans
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The government has ignored key demands made by disabled fans in its new white paper on football governance, say campaigners. The 99-page A Sustainable Future document mentions disability just once, and even then it calls on clubs to improve accessibility for […]

Campaigners to quiz Paris 2024 on disabled fans’ safety after Champions League ‘disgrace’

By John Pring on 16th February 2023 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Campaigners to quiz Paris 2024 on disabled fans’ safety after Champions League ‘disgrace’
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A disabled-led charity is to write to organisers of next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to raise concerns about the safety of disabled visitors, following a damning report into last year’s UEFA Champions League final. An independent review into […]

Artists show how creativity helps to resist DWP’s violence… and remember its victims

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Artists show how creativity helps to resist DWP’s violence… and remember its victims
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Disabled artists have described how they have used creativity to resist the violence of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and to remember its victims. The online Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence event this week was part of Healing […]

Government ‘started planning accessible lying-in-state queue more than 10 years ago’

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government ‘started planning accessible lying-in-state queue more than 10 years ago’
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The government began planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state more than a decade before she died, it claimed this week, despite the eventual arrangements deteriorating into “a shambles”. The Department […]

Survey shows rise in negative attitudes that provide barriers to disabled sports fans

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Survey shows rise in negative attitudes that provide barriers to disabled sports fans
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Disabled sports fans are increasingly likely to be confronted by negative attitudes when they attend live sport, according to a new survey. The survey found the proportion of disabled fans who identified the attitudes of others as a barrier to watching […]

Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled-led arts organisations welcome funding, but Arts Council admits it must do more
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Disabled-led arts organisations have welcomed millions of pounds in annual funding awarded by the Arts Council, although new figures suggest that progress in expanding investment may have stalled. Arts Council England (ACE) has awarded funding to 32 disabled-led organisations, with the […]

Government ‘ignored advice from disability organisations’ on lying-in-state

By John Pring on 29th September 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government ‘ignored advice from disability organisations’ on lying-in-state
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The government ignored crucial advice from disability organisations when it was planning an “accessible queue” for disabled people who wanted to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall, it emerged this week. The Department for Digital, […]

The ‘accessible queue’ for the Queen ‘was discriminatory and a shambles’

By John Pring on 22nd September 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

The ‘accessible queue’ for the Queen ‘was discriminatory and a shambles’
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Disabled people who struggled for hours to queue to pay their respects to the Queen at the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall say the government treated them as an “afterthought” and that its “discriminatory” arrangements were “a shambles”. Many disabled people travelled […]

Disabled spectators ‘told to move so they would not be in Commonwealth Games photos’

By John Pring on 11th August 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disabled spectators ‘told to move so they would not be in Commonwealth Games photos’
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Commonwealth Games organisers have been accused of “shocking” discrimination after disabled spectators were told to move from an accessible viewing area so they would not be seen in photographs of a table-tennis medal ceremony. The area reserved for disabled spectators was […]

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