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Police and CPS face questions on failure to treat ‘utterly barbaric’ offences as hate crime

By John Pring on 25th October 2018 Category: Crime

Police and CPS face questions on failure to treat ‘utterly barbaric’ offences as hate crime
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The police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are facing questions over why an “utterly barbaric” campaign of violence and abuse directed at a disabled mum and daughter was not treated as disability hate crime. A family of four were jailed last […]

Duncan Smith refuses to apologise over ‘exploitative’ comments

By John Pring on 25th October 2018 Category: Employment

Duncan Smith refuses to apologise over ‘exploitative’ comments
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The architect of many of the government’s most unpopular and flawed welfare reforms, Iain Duncan Smith, has refused to apologise for “exploitative” comments he made about disabled people and employment. The former work and pensions secretary (pictured) is reported to have […]

DWP faces nearly 60 disability discrimination tribunal cases in 20 months

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Employment

DWP faces nearly 60 disability discrimination tribunal cases in 20 months
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The Employment Tribunal has dealt with almost 60 claims of disability discrimination taken against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by its own staff over a 20-month period, new research has shown. A database on the Employment Tribunal website shows […]

Sharp fall in disability hate crime referrals by police

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Crime

Sharp fall in disability hate crime referrals by police
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The Home Office has been unable to explain why the number of disability hate crime cases referred to prosecutors by the police plunged last year by nearly a quarter, and why successful prosecutions of such offences fell even more sharply. In […]

New ‘suicide prevention’ minister evades questions on ESA suicide stats

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Politics

New ‘suicide prevention’ minister evades questions on ESA suicide stats
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The new “minister for suicide prevention” has refused to say if she will alert agencies across the country to NHS figures that show the high risk of suicide faced by claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. Last week, mental health minister Jackie […]

Account of sanctions desperation leaves disabled peer in tears at WRAG research launch

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Account of sanctions desperation leaves disabled peer in tears at WRAG research launch
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A benefit claimant left a disabled peer in tears after describing to a parliamentary meeting how the application of the government’s brutal sanctions regime by a jobcentre adviser had left him so desperate that he attempted to take his own life. […]

DPO’s report uncovers pattern of council failings on social care

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Independent Living

DPO’s report uncovers pattern of council failings on social care
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A user-led organisation says its research has uncovered a pattern of behaviour by a local authority that has undermined the ability of disabled people in the borough to access the support they need to live independently. The disabled people’s organisation Merton […]

Disabled shadow minister calls for government to fund access to all rail stations

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Transport

Disabled shadow minister calls for government to fund access to all rail stations
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A disabled shadow minister has called on the government to do more to improve its “inadequate” record on improving access to rail travel, and to provide enough funding to ensure all train journeys are accessible “from end to end”. Marsha de […]

High streets ‘need to wake up to the need to communicate with disabled people’

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

High streets ‘need to wake up to the need to communicate with disabled people’
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Struggling high street businesses need to “wake up” to the need to communicate with disabled people and their potential £200 billion spending power, according to the founder of an accessibility information website. Dr Gregory Burke told Disability News Service that he […]

Anger and dismay after Labour back-tracks on pledge to scrap universal credit

By John Pring on 11th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger and dismay after Labour back-tracks on pledge to scrap universal credit
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Labour has infuriated its own disabled members by backtracking on a public pledge by the shadow chancellor that the party would scrap universal credit if it won the next general election. John McDonnell drew widespread praise when he told Sky’s Sophy […]

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