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A disabled peer is refusing to concede defeat despite the coalition narrowly overturning his amendment to the care bill, which would have provided human rights protection for residents of private sector and charity-run homes. Lord [Colin] Low secured the amendment after […]
International research on disability should focus on the barriers disabled people face, rather than endless headcounts of how many people there are in developing countries with different impairments, according to a leading disabled academic. Dr Tom Shakespeare, currently a senior lecturer […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has caused outrage after telling senior civil servants that it was “business as usual”, despite the court of appeal ruling that its “fitness for work” test discriminated against many disabled people. The court ruled […]
A disabled woman has been left in a coma, apparently as a direct result of the government’s welfare reforms, MPs heard this week. Sheila Holt was among disabled people whose cases were used by Labour MPs to show the need for […]
The government should draw up a strategy to ensure advice and legal support are available for disabled people and others who get into difficulty in their daily lives, according to an inquiry headed by a disabled peer. The Low Commission says […]
The UK’s high streets are frequently off-limits to young disabled people because of staff attitudes, broken equipment, blocked shopping aisles, out-of-date information and inaccessible entrances, according to a new report. A survey of 100 members of the Trailblazers group of young […]
Another police force has admitted failing to treat repeated, targeted, violent offences against a disabled person as disability hate crimes. Craig Kinsella was kept as a slave in a garage by a Sheffield family, beaten on a daily basis, and forced […]
Five disabled people who face losing their homes because of the government’s much-criticised “bedroom tax” will ask the court of appeal later this month to rule that the policy discriminates against them. The five lost their high court case against the […]
The government’s admission that thousands of people hit by the “bedroom tax” have had their housing benefit cut by mistake is yet another “complete farce” caused by the Department for Work and Pensions, say disabled activists. Campaigners fear that many of […]
The attorney general has dismissed calls from hate crime campaigners to ask the courts to increase the sentence handed to the killer who carried out the horrific murder of a disabled man last summer. Bijan Ebrahimi was beaten and kicked to […]