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Disabled people and their organisations have branded this week’s budget misguided and cruel, and say it will drag many more disabled people into poverty. Their chief target was the chancellor’s decision to remove – from April 2017 – the extra financial […]
The minister for disabled people has risked ridicule after announcing that Swansea has become the country’s first “Disability Confident City”, despite being unable to explain why it was chosen. The announcement was timed to coincide with a Disability Confident conference that […]
An NHS trust and a homelessness charity have failed to dispel concerns that a new centre for mental health services is closely linked to government plans to push people in mental distress off benefits. Scores of protesters marched on a jobcentre […]
Disabled activists came close to forcing their way into the main debating chamber of the House of Commons during prime minister’s questions, in a last-ditch protest against the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). The direct action came during a […]
Disabled people who receive support through the Independent Living Fund (ILF) have been caused fear, stress and anxiety by the process leading to its closure, according to new research. A seminar organised by the campaigning disabled peer Baroness [Jane] Campbell heard […]
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £880, 000 to a three-year project that will uncover disabled people’s history, through examination of eight unique buildings across England. Accentuate’s History of Place project will focus on sites dating from the twelfth century […]
Disabled people should accept the “badge of disability” in order to increase their profile as consumers and help drive down the extra costs they face, according to a new report. The year-long Extra Costs Commission says that disabled people should come […]
Disabled activists are to hold a protest about a new government scheme that will see mental health therapists installed in a south London jobcentre. Members of the Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) are also furious that a new “Living Well Hub”, […]
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to write to Manchester United and football’s Premier League after Disability News Service (DNS) passed on concerns that disabled fans had had their mobility aids confiscated by stewards. Staff at Manchester United’s Old […]
A user-led organisation is to set up a food bank solely for disabled people in east London, after being overwhelmed by requests for help in the wake of five years of government “austerity”. Julie Jaye Charles, chief executive of Equalities National […]