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Disabled activists have welcomed government plans to reduce the use of police cells as temporary “places of safety” for people detained under the Mental Health Act but have called for ministers to do more to prevent discrimination. Home secretary Theresa May […]
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 […]