The government tried this week to persuade the UN that it has made “progress” since being found guilty of “grave and systematic violations” of the disability rights convention, just as MPs prepared to undermine one of its key claims. A delegation […]
Disability Unit
Government rejects call to work with disabled people to draft new 10-year disability strategy
DPOs’ verdict on Disability Action Plan: weak, grudging and just a list of empty promises
MPs say government’s disability strategy is ‘a strategy in name only’
Anger over ‘clueless’ government’s ‘completely misguided’ awareness campaign
Disabled campaigners have asked why the government is spending money on a “potentially damaging” and “completely misguided” awareness-raising campaign that aims to stop non-disabled people making “assumptions” about people’s impairments. One of the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that were backing the […]