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Election 2017: Lib Dems make UN convention pledge

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Human Rights

Election 2017: Lib Dems make UN convention pledge
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The Liberal Democrats have pledged that they would incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law. Although the policy – which would give disabled people in the UK a wave of new rights in law – was not part of the […]

Election 2017: Parties finally stress importance of working-age social care

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Election 2017: Parties finally stress importance of working-age social care
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The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour have all spoken publicly – apparently for the first time in the general election campaign – about what their parties would do to address the social care needs of working-age disabled people. Their comments follow […]

Baroness Campbell vows to fight on over access to buses

By John Pring on 27th October 2016 Category: Transport

Baroness Campbell vows to fight on over access to buses
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A disabled peer has vowed to fight on after the government rejected her proposal to introduce a new law that would force bus companies to protect the interests of disabled passengers. Baroness [Jane] Campbell had suggested an amendment to the government’s […]

Speaker ‘must take a stance’ on job-share MPs

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Politics

Speaker ‘must take a stance’ on job-share MPs
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The speaker of the House of Commons must “take a stance” on calls for new laws that would allow candidates to stand jointly for election as job-share MPs, according to the disabled president of the Liberal Democrats. Baroness [Sal] Brinton spoke […]

‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal
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The sister of a man driven to suicide by the “fitness for work” system tried to take her own life after being “treated like a criminal” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over her benefit claims. Eleanor Donnachie believes […]

Lib Dem conference: Party picks first Westminster candidate from all-disabled shortlist

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Politics

Lib Dem conference: Party picks first Westminster candidate from all-disabled shortlist
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The Liberal Democrats have become the first political party to pick a candidate to fight a parliamentary seat from a shortlist containing only disabled people. Former MP Stephen Lloyd, who lost his Eastbourne seat at the 2015 election by just 733 […]

Lib Dem conference: Party ‘needs to rebuild trust with disabled voters’

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Politics

Lib Dem conference: Party ‘needs to rebuild trust with disabled voters’
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The president of the Liberal Democrats has admitted that her party needs to rebuild trust among disabled people, after five years of coalition government ended with a shattering defeat at last year’s general election. Baroness [Sal] Brinton, herself a wheelchair-user, said […]

Government must rip up response to Equality Act report, say disabled peers

By John Pring on 8th September 2016 Category: Politics

Government must rip up response to Equality Act report, say disabled peers
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Disabled peers have demanded that the government rips up its “frustrating”, “clichéd” and “tepid” response to a major House of Lords report on the Equality Act’s impact on disabled people. The Equality Act 2010 and disability committee reported in March on […]

Five disabled peers call for audio-visual systems for all new buses

By John Pring on 16th June 2016 Category: Transport

Five disabled peers call for audio-visual systems for all new buses
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Five disabled peers have called on the government to strengthen a new bill to ensure that all new buses have to be fitted with audio-visual announcements. They were taking part in last week’s second Lords reading of the bus services bill, […]

It is ‘not value-for-money’ to collect vital PIP stats on 20-metre rule, says DWP

By John Pring on 12th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

It is ‘not value-for-money’ to collect vital PIP stats on 20-metre rule, says DWP
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Two disabled peers have criticised ministers for refusing to collect figures that would demonstrate the impact of a key element of new benefit rules that will see tens of thousands of people losing their Motability vehicles. The Liberal Democrat peer Baroness […]

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