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A disabled activist has told a major conference of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) how a successful campaign to end discriminatory care charges in a London borough has led to powerful change in other key areas of independent living. Kevin Caulfield told […]
Disabled people’s organisations will gather next month for a crucial national conference that will discuss their policy demands ahead of the next general election. The conference is being organised by the two leading networks of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in England, […]
A disabled Conservative peer has told MPs that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “stuck in a time warp” and has a “culture of low aspiration”. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin (pictured) said he believed DWP treated disabled people “as maybe […]
Many of the country’s leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have written to the disability minister to ask for a “reset” in their relationship with the government, in the wake of a court ruling that its entire National Disability Strategy is unlawful. […]
The minister for disabled people’s final public words before he was sacked in a reshuffle have raised fresh concerns about the government’s failure to engage with the disabled people’s movement. Justin Tomlinson told MPs last week that he would be asking […]
The new minister for disabled people has been told by many of the country’s leading user-led organisations that the failure to address disability poverty in her government’s new green paper is “shocking and unacceptable”. Chloe Smith (pictured) was appointed to the […]
New analysis of the government’s National Disability Strategy has exposed its lack of bold initiatives and new funding, and has revealed how ministers have padded it out with scores of consultations, reviews and vague pledges. Many of the commitments included in […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have expressed “outrage” at the UK government’s decision to launch a “tokenistic” and “rehashed” National Disability Strategy that is “not fit for purpose”, and was not developed in co-production with DPOs. A network of more than 20 […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across England have set up their own national network after the minister for disabled people apparently shut down his advisory forum of DPOs after just three meetings. The government’s DPO Forum has not met since last October, […]