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Disabled activists have spoken of their growing frustration and even anger with Labour’s failure to engage properly with user-led organisations, after the party announced a new roadshow aimed at hearing from individual disabled people around the country. Vicky Foxcroft, Labour’s shadow […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across the country say they are “shocked and dismayed” by the government’s failure to engage with them, as ministers prepare to publish their long-awaited disability strategy. The concerns came after the minister for disabled people, Justin Tomlinson, […]
The minister for disabled people took part in just a handful of meetings with “external” organisations during each of the first four months of the pandemic, government figures have revealed. Analysis of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data shows that […]
Many universities are still struggling with the idea of working closely with disabled people to co-produce disability research projects, according to a new study. The report, the latest to come from the user-led Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) […]
Disabled people have played a “ground-breaking” role in co-producing a major new redevelopment scheme. The role played by disabled people in the planning application to redevelop Hammersmith town hall and the surrounding area in London is the first major product of […]
A pioneering inquiry by a commission of disabled people is set to lead to a London borough becoming a beacon for local authorities on how to work together with service-users to co-produce policies and services. The report by the Hammersmith and […]
Labour has refused to say what impact the snap election will have on its lengthy efforts to ensure that disabled people’s views are at the heart of its new social security policies. Although it says the results of its Disability Equality […]