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Disabled peers help defeat ‘manipulative’ bid to ‘open the door to assisted suicide’

By John Pring on 17th March 2022 Category: Politics

Disabled peers help defeat ‘manipulative’ bid to ‘open the door to assisted suicide’
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Four disabled peers have helped defeat attempts to hijack the government’s health and care bill and use it to secure a change in the law to legalise assisted suicide. The Conservative peer Lord Forsyth, a former secretary of state for Scotland, had proposed […]

Disabled people will be forgotten again unless ministers change safety bill, say peers

By John Pring on 24th February 2022 Category: Housing

Disabled people will be forgotten again unless ministers change safety bill, say peers
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Two disabled peers have warned the government that disabled people living in high-rise flats will again be forgotten – five years on from the Grenfell disaster – if its building safety bill fails to make their need for protection explicitly clear. […]

Eight-hour debate suggests House of Lords is split on assisted suicide

By John Pring on 28th October 2021 Category: Politics

Eight-hour debate suggests House of Lords is split on assisted suicide
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The chances of a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide being passed by the House of Lords appear to be in the balance after nearly eight hours of debate among peers. The organisation Dignity in Dying, which leads the campaign […]

Channel 4 Tokyo coverage ‘is vital chance to put disability back in the mainstream’

By John Pring on 8th July 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Channel 4 Tokyo coverage ‘is vital chance to put disability back in the mainstream’
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Channel 4’s coverage of this summer’s Paralympics in Tokyo will be a vital opportunity to put disabled people and disability back onto the mainstream agenda, according to one of its disabled presenters. The broadcaster announced this week that more than 70 […]

Ministers agree to carer abuse review after refusing to include disability rights in new bill

By John Pring on 29th April 2021 Category: Politics

Ministers agree to carer abuse review after refusing to include disability rights in new bill
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The government has agreed to launch a year-long review into the protection and support available to disabled people who are abused by their carers. The review will examine the protections and support currently available, and the barriers to access to justice, […]

Train company pays £17,000 after repeatedly leaving disabled woman stranded

By John Pring on 11th March 2021 Category: Transport

Train company pays £17,000 after repeatedly leaving disabled woman stranded
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A disabled woman who was left stranded on trains and station platforms more than 30 times by a rail company has been awarded compensation of £17,000. Southern admitted repeatedly failing to deal ­­with the discrimination Sam Jennings was facing, even after […]

Disabled peer secures victory over government on domestic abuse bill

By John Pring on 11th March 2021 Category: Crime

Disabled peer secures victory over government on domestic abuse bill
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A disabled peer has inflicted a heavy defeat on the government over its refusal to extend the rights of disabled survivors of domestic abuse through new legislation. Baroness [Jane] Campbell secured cross-party backing for her amendments to the government’s domestic abuse […]

Campaigners seek urgent support for amendments to domestic abuse bill

By John Pring on 18th February 2021 Category: Crime

Campaigners seek urgent support for amendments to domestic abuse bill
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Campaigners are seeking “urgent” support for their attempt to increase the rights of disabled survivors of domestic abuse through new government legislation. They say time is running out to secure support in the House of Lords for two key amendments to […]

Tory backing for domestic abuse amendment on care, despite government opposition

By John Pring on 28th January 2021 Category: Politics

Tory backing for domestic abuse amendment on care, despite government opposition
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Two disabled peers have secured cross-party backing for their attempt to expand the protection offered to disabled people through the government’s domestic abuse bill. Although the government is so far opposing the move by Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson and Baroness [Jane] Campbell, […]

Prime minister must abandon ‘reckless’ COVID Christmas plans, say DPOs

By John Pring on 17th December 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Prime minister must abandon ‘reckless’ COVID Christmas plans, say DPOs
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Disabled campaigners have made a last-minute appeal to the government to abandon its plans to relax rules on socialising over Christmas, as fears grow that this will cause a sharp rise in coronavirus infections and many thousands of deaths. Disabled people’s […]

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