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The equality and human rights watchdog has been accused of failing to use a major inquiry to address concerns over the “non-natural” deaths of black men and women with mental health conditions in detention. The campaigning organisation Black Mental Health UK […]
Disabled activists have backed the findings of a major inquiry that concluded that serious flaws within the mental health and criminal justice systems were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of service-users in detention. They spoke out after the Equality and […]
Premier League football clubs would be guilty of a “scandalous” failure if they do not use some of a multi-billion pound TV rights windfall to improve access at their grounds according to the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner. The Conservative peer Lord […]
A disabled campaigner has won backing from the equality watchdog to continue his legal battle to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has decided to support wheelchair-user Doug Paulley’s appeal to […]