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DPOs welcome Disability Rights UK’s decision to quit charities’ lobby group

By John Pring on 24th June 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPOs welcome Disability Rights UK’s decision to quit charities’ lobby group
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A leading national disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has announced it is quitting a powerful lobby group of disability charities as part of a move to work mostly with other DPOs rather than non-user-led organisations. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) said the […]

Government’s fresh bids to engage with disabled people are ‘just business as usual’

By John Pring on 9th April 2020 Category: Human Rights

Government’s fresh bids to engage with disabled people are ‘just business as usual’
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Government announcements on how it is engaging with disabled people have been dismissed as “business as usual” and proof that it is continuing to breach the UN disability convention. Days after Disability News Service reported concerns about the failure to engage […]

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