A leading entertainment group has admitted discriminating against a disabled theatre-goer by forcing him to buy a ticket for the personal assistant (PA) he needed to accompany him to a concert. Doug Paulley and seven other residents of the care home […]
Human Rights
First national appeal system for council-funded care ‘will solve a lot of grief’
UN expert says UK disabled people are ‘between a rock and a hard place’
Attorney general takes ‘garage slave’ sentence to appeal court
Kinsella hate crime farce ‘highlights need for new laws’
Criminal justice system ‘is failing offenders with learning difficulties’
Inclusion is only right for some disabled children, says EHRC
Government’s ‘unwieldy’ plan for disability advice is ‘cynical effrontery’
A government plan to replace its high-level committee of disabled advisors with three new advice bodies has been described by a veteran disabled activist as “unwieldy, complicated and probably inaccessible to grassroots disabled people’s organisations”. The government this week published details […]