Two disabled leaders have quit the “stakeholder network” set up to ensure that the voices of disabled people are at the heart of the government’s work, after months – and even years – of “inertia” and a failure to respond to […]
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Government fails to publish guidance to support disabled candidates in time for election
The Conservative government has failed to publish guidance that would have helped political parties support disabled people standing at next month’s general election. The government’s much-criticised Disability Action Plan, published in February, pledged three actions that would “support both the recruitment […]
MPs undermine key government claim, days after it defended its record at the UN
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 […]