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MPs have asked the prime minister fewer than 20 questions on subjects focused on disabled people and their rights in the last 18 months of prime minister’s questions (PMQs), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. Analysis of the questions asked in […]
An influential disability employment membership organisation is facing serious questions over why it suddenly dropped its support for proposals that would force larger employers to reveal how many disabled people they employ. The Business Disability Forum (BDF) revealed its about-turn in […]
The founder of a high-profile access campaign has denied that it provides powerful corporations with an opportunity to parade their supposed commitment to disability equality without having to prove they are implementing the public promises they make. This week saw the […]
The court of appeal has overturned a controversial legal ruling that found it would be lawful for a care worker to enable a young disabled man to pay for time with a sex worker. A Court of Protection judge concluded in […]
A former cabinet minister is hoping that his bill aimed at improving services for people with Down’s syndrome will be the first such legislation in the world. Dr Liam Fox, a former defence secretary, told a fringe meeting at this week’s […]
Disabled Labour activists have raised concerns about their leader’s promise to “always put hard-working families and their priorities first”, and his failure to mention disabled people, in a 12,000-word essay published on the eve of his party’s annual conference. The essay […]
A disabled lawyer who has taken scores of important disability discrimination cases has spoken of his regret after his law firm was forced to close because its credit facility was suddenly withdrawn. There has been concern among disabled campaigners at Fry […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have expressed “outrage” at the UK government’s decision to launch a “tokenistic” and “rehashed” National Disability Strategy that is “not fit for purpose”, and was not developed in co-production with DPOs. A network of more than 20 […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across England have set up their own national network after the minister for disabled people apparently shut down his advisory forum of DPOs after just three meetings. The government’s DPO Forum has not met since last October, […]
Disabled women were made to feel abandoned, unworthy and disposable by the government’s failure to take their lives into consideration when making decisions and drawing up national policies during the pandemic, according to a new report. The report found that the […]