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User-led organisations have played a key role in two major new projects that aim to improve access for disabled tourists and ramblers. In Oxfordshire, Natural England has opened the National Land Access Centre (NLAC), which will provide training for landowners, farmers […]
The government’s response to a consultation on how to make voting more accessible to disabled people has sparked anger among disabled campaigners, after it failed to offer a single new measure to improve access. One disabled campaigner branded the government’s report […]
Major retailers have backed the launch of the UK’s first “accessible shopping day”, which will see businesses promise to introduce new measures to benefit their disabled customers. Purple Tuesday, to be held on 13 November, is being led by Purple, the […]
Wheelchair-users in Kent are threatening to take legal action over growing concerns about delays, poor service and even bullying and harassment by the company running the NHS wheelchair services contract in the county. Four disability groups – Kent’s Physical Disability Forum […]
Disabled activists have given a guarded welcome to the launch of a new inquiry by MPs into the discrimination faced in accessing health and social care services by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The Commons women and equalities committee, […]
Disability charities have helped the government cover up the reason it was forced to announce changes to rules that prevented thousands of disabled people with invisible impairments secure blue parking badges. The Department for Transport (DfT) won widespread praise this week […]
The disability charity Leonard Cheshire has been accused of making “a complete mockery” of its supposed commitment to service-user involvement after it suddenly told residents of 17 of its care homes that it plans to sell them to other care providers. […]
Campaigners in Northamptonshire have raised serious concerns about the impact on disabled people of the growing financial crisis enveloping their county council. Northamptonshire County Council announced this week that it will need to find up to £70 million of savings in […]
The minister for disabled people is calling on her own government to take “urgent action” to address concerns about the dangers of “shared space” street developments. Sarah Newton called for action in letters she wrote to both the minister for transport […]
Legal advice commissioned by the equality and human rights watchdog has called for disabled people to have a legal right to independent living. The barrister was asked by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last year to examine if there […]