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The pandemic has left disabled people who work in the arts and culture sector in a “shockingly fragile” position, according to the campaign group behind a new survey. The results of the survey, carried out by the UK Disability Arts Alliance, […]
Disabled people are facing significant barriers to building careers in the music industry, according to new user-led research. The research* by Attitude is Everything found that nearly four-fifths (79 per cent) of Deaf and disabled people working in the music and […]
Scores of disabled people who have been brutalised by the bureaucracy of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have contributed to a new anthology of poetry and prose that describes their ordeals in “graphic and heart-rending detail”. The Brown Envelope […]
The Football Association (FA) has become the latest organisation to discriminate against disabled people taking part in a government programme of events that is testing how post-lockdown crowds can safely return to sports and cultural venues. At least two of the […]
A programme of events testing how crowds can safely return to venues was thrown into confusion this week as the government and event organisers disagreed with each other on whether “clinically extremely vulnerable” (CEV) people are banned from attending. At least […]
The government is facing fresh accusations of disability discrimination, after apparently banning people who are “clinically extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19 from attending all nine of its sports, cultural and business “test” events. The nine events are taking place over the next […]
The government has failed to explain why it has made no contact for more than two months with a string of disabled experts who applied for voluntary positions as its “disability and access ambassadors”. The Disability Unit announced in early January […]
Disability arts organisations fear that possible government plans to set up a “vaccine passport” scheme could undermine the rights of disabled artists, workers and audiences. Members of the #WeShallNotBeRemoved campaign warned this week that any such scheme could infringe disabled people’s […]
A memorial to the victims of the Peterloo massacre has been branded a “million-pound embarrassment” after Manchester City Council failed again to suggest a way to make it fully accessible to disabled people. One disabled activist told an online public meeting […]
One of the country’s leading Paralympians has called on football clubs to do more to improve access for disabled supporters. Six-time Paralympian Stephen Miller, a founding member of Newcastle United Disabled Supporters Association (NUDSA), said there had been a “massive progression” on […]