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Pioneering council praised for ground-breaking co-production on housing strategy

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Housing

Pioneering council praised for ground-breaking co-production on housing strategy
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A local authority has been praised for once again breaking new ground on co-producing policy with disabled people, after publishing a new disabled people’s housing strategy. Hammersmith and Fulham council, in London, has produced the housing strategy in co-production with disabled […]

Minister’s announcement suggests few of his disability ambassadors are disabled people

By John Pring on 5th August 2021 Category: Politics

Minister’s announcement suggests few of his disability ambassadors are disabled people
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The minister for disabled people appears to have appointed a string of non-disabled people to be his new disability ambassadors, just as his government’s National Disability Strategy was claiming it would remove barriers to disabled people’s participation in public life. Justin […]

Round-up: Community funding, new special schools, Changing Places… and a new forum

By John Pring on 23rd July 2020 Category: Human Rights

Round-up: Community funding, new special schools, Changing Places… and a new forum
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Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed three years of funding that will help move people with learning difficulties and autistic people out of mental health hospitals and into homes in the community. The £62 million (£20 million this […]

Deaf boss forced to appeal for charity support after Access to Work court defeat

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Employment

Deaf boss forced to appeal for charity support after Access to Work court defeat
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A Deaf chief executive is having to appeal to charity to fund the support he needs to do his job, after the high court decided that a cap the government imposed on Access to Work (AtW) payments did not breach the […]

Supreme Court tribunal fees win, but minister hints charges could be reintroduced

By John Pring on 27th July 2017 Category: Employment

Supreme Court tribunal fees win, but minister hints charges could be reintroduced
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The Supreme Court has ruled that the government broke the law by introducing fees for disabled people and others who take cases for discrimination or other illegal or unfair treatment to employment tribunals. The court ruled unanimously yesterday (Wednesday) that the […]

Inclusion London set to test social model job support, after £775k grant

By John Pring on 13th July 2017 Category: Employment

Inclusion London set to test social model job support, after £775k grant
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A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has been given the chance to test “exciting” and “important” approaches to supporting young disabled people into work that reflect the social model of disability, after securing more than £750,000 in funding. Inclusion London has […]

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