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Anger over disability survey’s ‘degrading’ and ‘insulting’ relationship question

By John Pring on 4th March 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Anger over disability survey’s ‘degrading’ and ‘insulting’ relationship question
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The government’s Disability Unit has caused widespread anger after asking non-disabled people – in a survey that will influence its new disability strategy – if they would be “happy to have a physical relationship with a disabled person”. Disabled campaigners described […]

DWP brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for seeking truth about impact of universal credit

By John Pring on 4th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP brands DNS ‘vexatious’ for seeking truth about impact of universal credit
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Disability News Service (DNS) has been branded “vexatious” for trying to secure a key unpublished Department for Work and Pensions document that could finally show how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. DNS […]

Urgent action needed on pandemic harm caused to disabled people, say researchers

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Human Rights

Urgent action needed on pandemic harm caused to disabled people, say researchers
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Urgent action is needed to “rectify the harm caused to disabled people” during the COVID-19 crisis and to learn lessons for subsequent waves of the virus, and other future pandemics, researchers have warned. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and the […]

Pressure mounts on Tomlinson as second DPO letter raises disability strategy concerns

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Pressure mounts on Tomlinson as second DPO letter raises disability strategy concerns
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The minister for disabled people has been told by 10 user-led organisations of their “serious concerns and disappointment” about his efforts to engage with disabled people on the government’s proposed national disability strategy. The letter from 10 members of the Our […]

New figures set to provide clearer picture of disproportionate pandemic deaths of disabled people

By John Pring on 14th January 2021 Category: Human Rights

New figures set to provide clearer picture of disproportionate pandemic deaths of disabled people
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New official figures, set to be released early next month, should provide a clearer picture of why so many disabled people have died from COVID-19 during the pandemic. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has told Disability News Service that it […]

MPs call for inquiry into government’s role in COVID deaths of disabled people

By John Pring on 23rd December 2020 Category: Human Rights

MPs call for inquiry into government’s role in COVID deaths of disabled people
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MPs have called for an independent inquiry into why so many disabled people have died from coronavirus, and the role the UK government and other public bodies have played in causing those deaths. Members of the Commons women and equalities committee […]

Prime minister must abandon ‘reckless’ COVID Christmas plans, say DPOs

By John Pring on 17th December 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Prime minister must abandon ‘reckless’ COVID Christmas plans, say DPOs
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Disabled campaigners have made a last-minute appeal to the government to abandon its plans to relax rules on socialising over Christmas, as fears grow that this will cause a sharp rise in coronavirus infections and many thousands of deaths. Disabled people’s […]

Labour apologises for inaccessible disability rights event

By John Pring on 3rd December 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Labour apologises for inaccessible disability rights event
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Labour has apologised after it admitted that a meeting held to mark the international day of disabled people was inaccessible to some disabled people. The meeting was hosted by Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, Vicky Foxcroft, and aimed to gather […]

Government’s quiet confession: We must do more to protect disabled people from COVID

By John Pring on 26th November 2020 Category: Human Rights

Government’s quiet confession: We must do more to protect disabled people from COVID
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The UK government appears to have bowed to months of pressure from disabled campaigners and allies, after quietly revealing that it is considering taking “further action” to protect disabled people from the pandemic. It comes alongside an admission that disabled people […]

Disability Union ‘will build power and a national voice for disabled people’

By John Pring on 5th November 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disability Union ‘will build power and a national voice for disabled people’
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A new independent user-led organisation – modelled on a trade union – is hoping to provide disabled people with a collective voice powerful enough to influence policy at a national level, while also offering them solutions to their disability-related problems. The […]

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