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A disabled peer is hoping to use her appointment to the BBC’s new board of directors to persuade the broadcaster to employ more disabled people. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson is one of just five non-executive directors appointed by the BBC to its […]
A collection and archive that tells the 40-year history of the disability arts movement will have a permanent home from next April, the project has announced. The latest stage of the £1 million National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) project […]
Long-overdue plans to improve access at the country’s biggest football club have divided its disabled supporters. Although the official disabled supporters’ association at Manchester United has welcomed the plans, which will eventually see the number of wheelchair spaces increase from just […]
The equality watchdog has asked every Premier League football club to explain how they are complying with their legal duties to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled supporters under the Equality Act. Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights […]
Hundreds of disabled children in England are starting to benefit from a new fund that will provide them with the specialist prosthetic limbs they need to take part in sports and other activities that were previously inaccessible to them. The Department […]
George Michael – who died on Christmas Day – financially supported some of the country’s leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) with secret donations for nearly two decades. The singer-songwriter provided grants through a charitable trust he set up in 1990, supporting […]
A world-renowned solo percussionist, a mental health campaigner, a digital inclusion expert and the founder of a travel review website are among the disabled people recognised in the new year honours list. The honours for non-sporting disabled recipients were swamped by […]
One of the country’s 20 top football clubs has admitted that it will breach a promise made by the Premier League that all of its stadiums would meet strict access standards by August 2017. When the Premier League, the governing body […]
The arts sector appears to be making gradual progress on increasing the proportion of disabled people in its workforce, although many leading companies have admitted employing no disabled staff at all, a new report by the Arts Council has revealed. The […]
The disability charity Scope is to close its disabled-led online publication Disability Now (DN) in a bid to cut costs, more than 30 years after it first appeared as a newspaper. But questions have been asked over Scope’s decision to continue […]