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The prime minister has refused to criticise four Conservative peers who made discriminatory and disablist remarks about disabled peers working in the House of Lords. Boris Johnson’s refusal to speak out came in response to a disabled constituent who wrote to […]
The equality and human rights watchdog has warned that social care is at “crisis point” and has called on the government to introduce a legal right to independent living, just 24 hours after Boris Johnson failed again to honour his promise […]
Disabled activists and allies are meeting today (Thursday) to plan how to generate a “groundswell” of support for a national independent living service that would be available free of charge to anyone in England who needs it. The online meeting, organised […]
The government is facing the threat of fresh legal action after it failed to provide a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter at a televised pandemic briefing by the prime minister, despite spending £2.6 million on a new media room. Deaf campaigners […]
The prime minister is facing questions over why he authorised spending of £2.6 million on creating a new Downing Street media briefing room which has a stage that is inaccessible to wheelchair-users. Photographs emerged this week which showed a raised stage […]
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 […]
The “vast majority” of important COVID-19-related information provided by the UK government is not accessible to users of British Sign Language (BSL), a new investigation has found. A report on the investigation will be submitted by lawyers for BSL-user Katie Rowley […]
Benefits for disabled people are set to rise by just 0.5 per cent next year, the government has announced, despite the increasing costs and cuts to support many of them are facing as a result of the pandemic. The announcement by […]
A Deaf campaigner is set to take legal action against both the government and the Labour party after they both failed to provide British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters at televised coronavirus briefings this week. Katie Rowley, who is pregnant, said it […]
The family of a disabled woman who died in the Grenfell Tower fire are taking legal action to force the government to protect other residents who need assistance in evacuating from high-rise blocks of flats. Last year, the Grenfell inquiry said […]