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A government department has blamed the pandemic for a five-year delay in publishing a report that suggested major changes to the public transport system would be needed to address the barriers faced by disabled people with invisible impairments. The report by […]
The first report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has shown how successive governments displayed a “criminally negligent” attitude towards protecting disabled people and other groups at risk from pandemics, according to disabled campaigners. Disabled people’s organisations said this week that it […]
Two national disabled people’s organisations have questioned why the “humanist” aspirations of the Welsh government were unable to prevent “mass death and real suffering” during the pandemic. Disability Wales and Disability Rights UK were delivering their opening statement to the section […]
The Scottish government failed to deliver on the rights of disabled people during the pandemic, even though it wanted to do so, two national disabled people’s organisations have told the UK Covid inquiry. Inclusion Scotland and Disability Rights UK (DR UK) […]
Disabled people were left without protection, written out of key investigations and proper consultation, and had their rights ignored by the UK government during the pandemic, four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry. They told the inquiry […]
Disabled people who are still shielding from Covid have far less trust in the government than the general public and are far more likely to believe it handled the pandemic very badly, a survey has found. The survey also found that […]
The attitude of the former disability minister to engagement with disabled people during the early months of the pandemic has been described as “scandalous” and “tokenistic”, days after he gave evidence about it to the Covid inquiry. Justin Tomlinson, who was […]
Two ministers failed to respond when a disabled people’s organisation warned at the start of the pandemic that new government guidance would not be enough to protect care home residents, the Covid public inquiry has heard. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) […]
Teachers, train drivers and other union activists have called for urgent action to secure the rights of disabled workers with long Covid. Among their demands, they are calling for statutory recognition of long Covid to ensure disabled employees are protected under […]
Thousands of people with long-term health conditions are likely to have lost the right to vote in last week’s local elections in England, reports from campaigners suggest. Scores of people who have compromised or suppressed immune systems contacted the Evusheld for […]