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An historic English city has beaten off competition from across Europe to become the first in the UK to win a prestigious access award from the European Commission. Chester learned this week that it had won the 2016 Access City Award, […]
Leading disabled actors have accused drama schools of not doing enough to recruit disabled students, and of hiding behind a “contrived” excuse for their failure to do so. Research by the campaign group Act for Change shows that not one of […]
Football’s Premier League has been branded dishonest by the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner, over its attitude to access and inclusion. Lord [Chris] Holmes told MPs that there had not been “anything like an inclusive culture” in the Premier League and in […]
A disabled busker has been forced to complain to the police and his local council after being verbally abused by other buskers, and even being attacked by one of their children. Guy Stewart, an experienced singer, saxophonist and harmonica player, has […]
The Arts Council has announced that it is to spend more than £2.5 million on a programme that aims to increase the number of disabled people in senior leadership roles in England’s arts and cultural organisations. The £2.57 million Change Makers […]
Sculptures of figures falling down, fat activism, and a dance performance dedicated to the disabled victims of the Nazi euthanasia programme will all feature in DaDaFest’s 13th festival of disability and Deaf arts, which begins next month. DaDaFest said the Liverpool-based […]
Football’s Premier League will break a pledge that all of its stadiums would be accessible to disabled football fans by next August, despite its clubs spending more than a billion pounds on player transfers this summer. The Premier League, the governing […]
Hannah Cockroft admits she has loved every minute of the celebrity lifestyle that has come in the wake of her two track gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympics. She’s been seen at awards ceremonies, taken part in fashion shoots, and […]
He was one of the biggest British names at the London 2012 Paralympics. There were wheelchair-racers Hannah Cockroft and David Weir, swimmer Ellie Simmonds… and T44 sprinter Jonnie Peacock. Peacock’s T44 final in London was one of the sporting highlights of […]
We’re just a week away now from the start of the Rio Paralympics, an event that for disabled people – depending on their viewpoint – is somewhere between a glorious celebration of sporting endeavour and a loathsome festival of ‘inspiration porn’. Chief […]