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SEN green paper suggests government is finally dumping Cameron’s ‘end the bias’ policy

By John Pring on 31st March 2022 Category: Education

SEN green paper suggests government is finally dumping Cameron’s ‘end the bias’ policy
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The government appears to have admitted that David Cameron’s 2010 pledge to “end the bias” towards including disabled children in mainstream schools was a huge mistake and now needs to be reversed. The apparent admission comes in this week’s long-awaited special […]

Cameron challenged twice in a minute over disability rights

By John Pring on 23rd October 2015 Category: Politics

Cameron challenged twice in a minute over disability rights
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The prime minister has had to defend his record on disability rights twice in a minute, after being questioned about both a UN inquiry and the death of a north London man failed by the discredited work capability assessment. David Cameron […]

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’

By John Pring on 29th May 2015 Category: Politics

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’
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Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years disabled campaigners have warned in the wake of this week’s Queen’s speech. The speech, which laid out plans for what the prime […]

Cameron downgrades minister for disabled people

By John Pring on 22nd May 2015 Category: Politics

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The new government has downgraded the importance of the role of the minister for disabled people, just days after winning the general election. The ministerial post had previously been a junior ministerial role until the October 2013 appointment of Mike Penning, […]

ELECTION 2015: Cameron’s visit from ‘human cost of austerity’ project

By John Pring on 6th May 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

ELECTION 2015: Cameron’s visit from ‘human cost of austerity’ project
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A disabled artist-activist’s project to “make visible the human cost of austerity” in the run-up to tomorrow’s general election has visited the prime minister’s constituency, home to one of the most high-profile victims of his government’s austerity programme. Liz Crow’s We Are […]

Plans on treatable conditions are ‘wild, stupid and dangerous’

By John Pring on 28th February 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Plans on treatable conditions are ‘wild, stupid and dangerous’
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Conservative proposals to cut out-of-work disability benefits for people with obesity and addictions – and maybe other conditions, too – if they refuse treatment are “wild, stupid and dangerous”, say disabled activists. The prime minister, David Cameron, has asked Dame Carol […]

Tory silence over scope of ‘unethical’ review of incapacity benefits

By John Pring on 21st February 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory silence over scope of ‘unethical’ review of incapacity benefits
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The Conservative party has refused to say if controversial proposals to cut the out-of-work disability benefits of people with obesity or addictions if they refuse treatment could also be applied to those with mental health conditions or other impairments. The prime […]

‘Hypocrite’ Cameron ‘is breaching UN convention’ with inaccessible office

By John Pring on 21st February 2015 Category: Politics

‘Hypocrite’ Cameron ‘is breaching UN convention’ with inaccessible office
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The prime minister has been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting that his constituency office in Oxfordshire is not accessible to many disabled people. The office in High Street, Witney, is on the first floor of a building with no lifts, a […]

History month launch hears of Cameron’s ‘broken promise’ to disabled veterans

By John Pring on 21st November 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

History month launch hears of Cameron’s ‘broken promise’ to disabled veterans
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A disabled researcher has accused the prime minister of breaking his promise to disabled veterans that they would not have to be assessed for the government’s new disability benefit. David Cameron made headlines in July 2012 when he pledged in a […]

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