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The SNP’s general election manifesto includes just three mentions of disability or disabled people, and only one of those is related to a policy it would push for in the next parliament. Many policies that have a specific impact on disabled […]
Plaid Cymru is promising to push for free social care in Wales and to demand full control over universal credit, in its general election manifesto. One of the party’s five headline policies includes a pledge to offer free social care through […]
The Conservative party appears to have announced just five new policy pledges – across its 62-page general election manifesto – that would specifically address the poverty, barriers and breaches of rights faced by disabled people. The party’s manifesto is silent on […]
The Liberal Democrats have been unable to explain why several of their general election policies on disability were copied word-for-word from their 2017 manifesto. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported that the party had refused to explain why it had […]
The Brexit party has almost completely ignored disability issues in its election manifesto, with not a single mention of disabled people. The party’s general election offer to voters, which it insists is a “contract” rather than a manifesto, provides almost no […]
Labour has accused successive Tory-led governments of forcing a million more people in families with disabled members into poverty over the last decade. In a new report, Labour highlights 10 areas in which successive Tory-led governments have failed on poverty as […]
A disabled Reuters journalist and Labour activist hopes to become what he believes would be the first MP with such a significant level of impairment to be elected to the House of Commons. Peter Apps, a global affairs commentator with Reuters […]
The government’s own report on its progress in building an inclusive society for disabled people – and the string of failures included in the document – has been ignored by the disability minister, and his department’s press office. The policy paper […]
The television broadcasting industry needs to do more to increase the number of disabled people within its workforce, the regulator has warned, with new figures showing progress has stalled. In its third annual Diversity and Equal Opportunities in Television report, Ofcom […]
The equality watchdog has been accused of a “head in the sand” failure to respond to significant criticisms by MPs about its failure to enforce anti-discrimination legislation. In a new report, the Commons women and equalities committee calls on the Equality […]