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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 […]
Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]
As few as one per cent of the employees working for some UK broadcasters have described themselves as disabled people, according to new research by the industry regulator. Ofcom’s Diversity And Equal Opportunities In Television report says disabled people appear to […]
The Liberal Democrats have become the first political party to pick a candidate to fight a parliamentary seat from a shortlist containing only disabled people. Former MP Stephen Lloyd, who lost his Eastbourne seat at the 2015 election by just 733 […]