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A lengthy review by the aviation regulator has exposed numerous failings by airlines operating in the UK in how they treat their disabled passengers. The review by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) began four years ago, but it was interrupted by […]
Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]
Disabled people forced into employment in the “gig economy” have to carry out significant levels of unpaid work to cope with the disability-related oppression and exploitation they face, new research has found. Austerity measures, uncertain working conditions, distrust and suspicion from […]
Labour is continuing to “drag its feet” on eliminating the barriers faced by its own disabled members, leading activists warned this week at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool. A series of disabled members spoke out about their continuing frustration that […]
Some of disabled people’s increased risk of death from Covid could be due to the discrimination they face, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has concluded. A new study into disabled people’s Covid-related deaths in England through the three waves of […]
The collapse of a law firm that had hundreds of active disability discrimination cases has caused confusion, concern and anger among some of its disabled former clients. Fry Law, and its founder, Chris Fry, were responsible for taking a string of […]
Labour’s general secretary has promised that he will put an end to the years of discrimination experienced by disabled party members. David Evans, the party’s general secretary since last year, told a Disability Labour fringe meeting that he would personally ensure […]
Labour’s shadow ministers for disability and equalities have refused to comment on the party’s continuing failure to address the discrimination faced by its own disabled members. Both Vicky Foxcroft, the shadow minister for disabled people, and Marsha de Cordova, the shadow […]
Disabled women have begun a three-week protest to highlight “appalling” research findings that showed they were almost twice as likely to die from COVID-19 during the pandemic as non-disabled women. They said the research showed that disabled women have been treated […]
Campaigners are set to protest outside the Home Office this weekend to call on the government to abandon plans to deport a young, black autistic man to Jamaica, a country he has not visited since he was four. They say the […]