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BSL bill ‘will not provide Deaf people with any new rights’

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

BSL bill ‘will not provide Deaf people with any new rights’
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Deaf people have been warned that a new British Sign Language (BSL) bill – backed by the government – will not provide them with any new rights. An online event held this week to discuss the controversial private members’ bill raised […]

Minister’s announcement suggests few of his disability ambassadors are disabled people

By John Pring on 5th August 2021 Category: Politics

Minister’s announcement suggests few of his disability ambassadors are disabled people
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The minister for disabled people appears to have appointed a string of non-disabled people to be his new disability ambassadors, just as his government’s National Disability Strategy was claiming it would remove barriers to disabled people’s participation in public life. Justin […]

Law change will allow Deaf jurors… after two decades of campaigning

By John Pring on 11th March 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Law change will allow Deaf jurors… after two decades of campaigning
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A leading Deaf campaigner has welcomed the government’s “long, long overdue” announcement that it will finally change the law to allow Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to serve on juries. David Buxton (pictured) has spent a decade campaigning […]

Confusion over government’s policy on election access support

By John Pring on 23rd January 2020 Category: Politics

Confusion over government’s policy on election access support
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Government policy on supporting disabled candidates to stand for elected office is in chaos after the Cabinet Office suggested it could offer funding to those standing to be police and crime commissioners (PCC), but not potential local councillors. One Deaf Labour […]

Government ‘discriminating’ by refusing to meet disability costs of election candidates

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Politics

Government ‘discriminating’ by refusing to meet disability costs of election candidates
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The government has been accused of discriminating against disabled people standing at next month’s general election – and breaching the UN disability convention – by refusing to fund any of their disability-related campaign spending. The refusal of the Government Equalities Office […]

UN day of disabled people: Temporary election access fund ‘must be just a first step’

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Politics

UN day of disabled people: Temporary election access fund ‘must be just a first step’
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The government has finally launched a new temporary fund that will support disabled candidates who want to stand for elected office, but only for the next 15 months. The Government Equalities Office (GEO) said the EnAble “interim” fund would provide £250,000 […]

Lib Dem conference: Party anger over DPAC’s ‘don’t vote Lib Dem’ call

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Politics

Lib Dem conference: Party anger over DPAC’s ‘don’t vote Lib Dem’ call
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Two leading disabled Liberal Democrats have criticised anti-cuts activists over their public call for disabled people not to vote for their party. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) published a high-profile message on social media this week during the party’s annual conference […]

Deaf campaigner takes court action over BSL jury ban

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Human Rights

Deaf campaigner takes court action over BSL jury ban
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A Deaf campaigner has launched a legal action aimed at stopping the government discriminating against users of British Sign Language by preventing them from serving on juries. David Buxton, chief executive of the London-based disabled people’s organisation Action on Disability, is […]

Deaf boss forced to appeal for charity support after Access to Work court defeat

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Employment

Deaf boss forced to appeal for charity support after Access to Work court defeat
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A Deaf chief executive is having to appeal to charity to fund the support he needs to do his job, after the high court decided that a cap the government imposed on Access to Work (AtW) payments did not breach the […]

Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

By John Pring on 3rd May 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision
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The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election but has been closed for the last three years. The announcement came in response […]

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