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Department of Health probes abuse law concerns over former civil servant

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Crime, Human Rights, News Archive

Department of Health probes abuse law concerns over former civil servant
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The Department of Health (DH) has been asked whether a senior civil servant – later arrested over two separate rape allegations – helped block tougher laws on the sexual abuse of people with learning difficulties in the 1980s. Disability News Service […]

NHS announcement means more control for ‘high-need individuals’

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Human Rights, Independent Living, News Archive

NHS announcement means more control for ‘high-need individuals’
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Disabled campaigners have welcomed new NHS plans to extend the number of disabled people with high levels of care and health needs who can control all of their own support. Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said the scheme would […]

Vigil marks final stages of ‘fitness for work’ legal fight

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Vigil marks final stages of ‘fitness for work’ legal fight
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Disabled activists held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice this week as legal efforts to force the government to reduce the discriminatory impact of its controversial “fitness for work” test approached their conclusion. The long-running case has been taken […]

‘Timely’ report warns UK could become ‘systematic violator of rights’

By John Pring on 11th July 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

‘Timely’ report warns UK could become ‘systematic violator of rights’
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An exhaustive and “timely” new report has laid bare the coalition’s failure to meet its human rights obligations to disabled people under international law. The report suggests that the UK has gone from being an international leader in disability rights to […]

‘Disturbing’ £1m lottery grant given to euthanasia lobby’s sister organisation

By John Pring on 4th July 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

‘Disturbing’ £1m lottery grant given to euthanasia lobby’s sister organisation
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Disabled campaigners have raised concerns about the “worrying” and “disturbing” decision to give more than one million pounds of public lottery money to the sister charity of the main organisation lobbying for assisted suicide to be legalised. The disabled people’s organisation […]

Human rights fears over DWP’s random spot checks

By John Pring on 4th July 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Human Rights, News Archive

Human rights fears over DWP’s random spot checks
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Disabled activists have criticised the government’s policy of turning up unannounced at the home of social security claimants to check their benefit payments are correct. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insists that such visits have been government policy for […]

Minister frustrated at lack of post-Winterbourne progress

By John Pring on 4th July 2014 Category: Human Rights, Independent Living, News Archive

Minister frustrated at lack of post-Winterbourne progress
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A government minister has criticised the “intolerable” failure of the NHS and local authorities to remove people with learning difficulties from out-of-area assessment and treatment units and return them to their home areas. The Liberal Democrat care and support minister Norman […]

Supreme Court’s assisted suicide ruling ‘is just prelude to big debate’

By John Pring on 27th June 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

Supreme Court’s assisted suicide ruling ‘is just prelude to big debate’
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The Supreme Court has ruled against three legal challenges that would have relaxed the laws on assisted suicide, but the complicated series of judgments has done little to reassure disabled activists fighting the threat of new legislation. The three appeals were […]

ILF reports overwhelming success, as DWP prepares to scrap it

By John Pring on 27th June 2014 Category: Human Rights, Independent Living, News Archive

ILF reports overwhelming success, as DWP prepares to scrap it
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More than 99 per cent of disabled people who use the Independent Living Fund (ILF) believe that it improves their ability to live independently, just as the government is preparing to abolish it. The coalition is planning to close ILF in […]

Report for watchdog will expose impact of coalition cuts on disabled people

By John Pring on 20th June 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

Report for watchdog will expose impact of coalition cuts on disabled people
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Experts commissioned by the equality watchdog have told Disability News Service (DNS) that it is possible to assess the overall impact of coalition spending cuts on disabled people, despite ministers repeatedly claiming such a project would be impossible. Disabled activists and […]

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