Discrimination

Human Rights

Lord Shinkwin speaking in the House of Lords

August 3, 2017 0

My disability abortion bill could halt Britain’s slide towards eugenics, says Tory peer

A disabled peer has warned that Britain could be heading towards becoming a “eugenic” society if parliament does not agree to update abortion laws to make it illegal to discriminate against foetuses with impairments. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin believes that equalising the time limit for abortions for both disabled and non-disabled foetuses would send a

Politics

Jared O'Mara, flanked by a woman and a man, in front of a row of houses

July 13, 2017 0

Labour silent on access for disabled MP excluded from debates

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The Labour party has refused to say if it will take any action to support a newly-elected disabled MP who has been prevented from taking part in some House of Commons debates because of access barriers. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week how Labour’s Jared O’Mara had been unable to attend a couple

Employment

March 30, 2017

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‘Disability Confident’ advocacy charity ‘discriminated against disabled employee’

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A disability charity that has signed up to the government’s Disability Confident scheme for employers has been forced to pay more than £3,000 to a disabled woman who claimed she was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed. Tmara Senior (pictured) worked for Cloverleaf Advocacy in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, for more than three years, before she

Human Rights

March 2, 2017

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Disabled peer accuses Lord Winston of ‘discriminatory eugenic’ abortion agenda

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A disabled peer has accused the renowned fertility expert Lord Winston of trying to hijack his attempts to outlaw disability discrimination in abortion laws because of his “discriminatory eugenic agenda”. The exchange in the House of Lords on Friday came as peers were debating Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin’s abortion (disability equality) bill, which he says

Benefits and Poverty

January 19, 2017

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Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants

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Fresh evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to allow benefit claimants to communicate via email, despite its claims that it allows disabled people with “valid reasons” to do so. Last week, one disabled PIP claimant, Mark Lucas, told how he was taking legal action against DWP for

Education

May 26, 2016

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TUC Disabled Workers Conference: ‘Most disabled teachers face harassment’

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Four-fifths of disabled teachers face harassment and discrimination at the hands of head teachers and other senior managers, disabled union delegates have been told. Members of the TUC Disabled Workers Conference (pictured) heard of the “growing evidence of increasing and blatant discrimination against disabled teachers”, not only through a failure to make reasonable adjustments

Employment

February 4, 2016

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Discrimination against disabled staff shoots up at DWP, the home of ‘Disability Confident’

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The number of disabled civil servants who have faced discrimination within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has risen by nearly a quarter in just a year, according to “shocking” and “very worrying” new figures. More than 1, 400 disabled civil servants who took part in the survey for the Cabinet Office said

Arts, Culture and Sport

November 20, 2015

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Football ‘has failed disabled people’, campaigners tell FIFA

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Football has “failed disabled people”, and its troubled world governing body must now place disability at the heart of its reform process, according to a leading UK campaigner. The Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFÉ) has written to the committee appointed to reform FIFA – which has been hit by repeated allegations

Independent Living

David Buxton and Terry Riley from the British Deaf Association giving evidence to peers

October 30, 2015

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Equality Act ‘simply isn’t strong enough’ for BSL-users, peers are told

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Two leading Deaf campaigners have told peers – in a ground-breaking evidence session – that the UK’s equality laws do not provide enough protection for users of British Sign Language (BSL). They want the government to do more to protect BSL-users than is available under the Equality Act and to set up a central

Employment

October 16, 2015

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Employee forced to return to factory after seven years of harassment

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A disabled man has had to return to the factory where he has twice been victimised by the same manager in a campaign of bullying and harassment that he says has lasted more than seven years. An employment tribunal has decided that Peter Houldin was the victim of four counts of discrimination, harassment and

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