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The Conservative party has refused to explain why it blocked Disability News Service (DNS) from receiving its press releases at its annual conference, and why it refuses to answer questions on disability-related policy. Although DNS was granted media accreditation to this […]
Disability News Service (DNS) has been blocked by Conservative head office from receiving any of the party’s press releases or even submitting media requests. The move appears to have followed a series of factually-correct DNS news stories highlighting misleading announcements by […]
Disabled members of Your Party, the troubled new grassroots socialist party, are hoping a commission will develop a series of disability policies based on the “real life experience” of “normal, day-to-day people”. Your Party, which has been hit by in-fighting and […]
An MP has called for action to “turn the tide of public attitudes towards disabled people”, and to empower young disabled people, after revealing the “anguish” she was caused by an eating disorder as a teenager. Dr Marie Tidball (pictured, in […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now telling disabled people who need support through the Access to Work scheme that it could take 37 weeks to make a decision on their application, senior civil servants have told MPs. They […]
Disabled young people in the UK still face barriers that stop them taking part in school, college and university on an equal basis with non-disabled people, despite ongoing international calls for inclusive education, according to new government-funded research. The research, commissioned […]
For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work holding the new Labour government to […]
The disability minister has been accused of a “shocking lack of empathy” after walking past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about government plans to cut disability benefits by billions of pounds. Representatives […]
Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of destitution. The disabled women’s organisation WinVisible told the Commons work and pensions […]
Labour’s disability minister has said for the first time that he is drawing up a list of priorities for action to address the barriers faced by disabled people. It is believed to be the first time that Sir Stephen Timms has […]