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Equality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs

By John Pring on 22nd May 2025 Category: Human Rights

Equality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs
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More than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Labour government. In a letter to the chief executive of […]

Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Labour’s cuts to PIP will drag a quarter of a million people into absolute poverty, DWP figures show
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The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty* by 2030, official documents have revealed. Although the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has for some reason […]

Online provider charges disabled students thousands more for same qualification in ‘blatant discrimination’

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Education

Online provider charges disabled students thousands more for same qualification in ‘blatant discrimination’
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An online education provider has been accused of “blatant discrimination” after charging disabled students thousands of pounds more a year than non-disabled students for the same qualifications. The Cambridge-based Online College of Art and Design (OCAD) describes itself as the UK’s […]

MPs call for urgent action on transport discrimination, and tell industry: ‘Accessibility is a human rights issue’

By John Pring on 20th March 2025 Category: Transport

MPs call for urgent action on transport discrimination, and tell industry: ‘Accessibility is a human rights issue’
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Disabled campaigners have welcomed a “fabulous” and “validating” report by MPs that calls on the government and industry to “urgently” recognise that the “regularity and severity” of public transport access failures is a human rights issue. The long-awaited report by the […]

Watchdog shows UK has taken zero action in response to UN recommendations in six areas of disability rights

By John Pring on 6th February 2025 Category: Human Rights

Watchdog shows UK has taken zero action in response to UN recommendations in six areas of disability rights
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Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human rights watchdog. Among the areas where governments have failed […]

Assisted suicide bill will have ‘serious and profound’ negative impact on disabled people, MPs are told

By John Pring on 30th January 2025 Category: Human Rights

Assisted suicide bill will have ‘serious and profound’ negative impact on disabled people, MPs are told
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A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at Disability Rights UK (DR UK), told […]

Labour and its disability minister appear to be in dispute over assistance dog discrimination at party conference

By John Pring on 14th November 2024 Category: Politics

Labour and its disability minister appear to be in dispute over assistance dog discrimination at party conference
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Labour appears set for a serious disagreement with its own minister for disability, after apparently rejecting his advice about a disabled member who was prevented from attending the party’s annual conference with her assistance dog. Sir Stephen Timms wrote to the […]

Equality watchdog was told six years ago to launch inquiry into benefit deaths, but ignored advice

By John Pring on 10th October 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Equality watchdog was told six years ago to launch inquiry into benefit deaths, but ignored advice
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The equality watchdog was first told by a senior member of staff six years ago that it needed to launch an inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. But despite […]

Human rights watchdog ‘neutered’ by years of Tory appointments, say activists

By John Pring on 18th July 2024 Category: Human Rights

Human rights watchdog ‘neutered’ by years of Tory appointments, say activists
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Disabled activists have called on the new Labour government to reform the equality and human rights watchdog, after years of appointments of divisive figures to its board by Conservative ministers have left it “neutered” and unable to do its job. The […]

DWP staff tell MPs after years of deaths: We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’

By John Pring on 30th May 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP staff tell MPs after years of deaths: We don’t have time to deal with safeguarding ‘carefully’ and ‘correctly’
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Two-thirds of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff still do not have enough time to deal with safeguarding concerns “carefully” and “correctly”, despite years of deaths of benefit claimants linked with DWP’s failings. Results from a survey* carried out by […]

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