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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 […]
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. […]
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’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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]