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Disabled students set to protest over cuts in support

By John Pring on 12th June 2025 Category: Education

Disabled students set to protest over cuts in support
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Scores of disabled students are to demonstrate next week in protest at their university’s “discriminatory” decision to secretly introduce cuts to their support. They say the University of Derby has removed the entitlement to support from many of the disabled students […]

Mind faces discrimination claims after internal probe calls for multiple improvements on equality

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Employment

Mind faces discrimination claims after internal probe calls for multiple improvements on equality
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A disabled woman has accused Mind of discrimination after an internal investigation recommended that the mental health charity make multiple improvements to how it treats staff protected by the Equality Act. Kuziva Punungwe-Mutandiro has spoken to Disability News Service (DNS) after […]

Activist’s legal threat set to lead to more generous compensation for rail passenger assistance failures

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Transport

Activist’s legal threat set to lead to more generous compensation for rail passenger assistance failures
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Rail companies are likely to be forced to provide more generous compensation when they fail to assist disabled passengers, thanks to the actions of an accessible transport campaigner. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to train and station […]

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 […]

Minister agrees to cross-party talks on strengthening rights for disabled renters

By John Pring on 16th January 2025 Category: Housing

Minister agrees to cross-party talks on strengthening rights for disabled renters
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The government has agreed to cross-party talks on strengthening the law so that landlords would have to allow “reasonable” adaptations to the homes of disabled renters. Ministers had refused on Tuesday to back two separate attempts – by Green and Liberal […]

Seven supermarket chains have introduced inaccessible fridges in their stores, say disabled shoppers

By John Pring on 21st November 2024 Category: Independent Living

Seven supermarket chains have introduced inaccessible fridges in their stores, say disabled shoppers
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Disabled people from across the country have raised concerns about how seven major supermarket chains have introduced inaccessible fridges to stock fresh food in their stores. Disabled shoppers have highlighted stores run by Aldi, Asda, Lidl, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, which […]

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 […]

Co-op faces discrimination claims over inaccessible fridges

By John Pring on 14th November 2024 Category: Independent Living

Co-op faces discrimination claims over inaccessible fridges
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A major supermarket chain has been accused of discrimination after installing chilled food cabinets with inaccessible doors, preventing many of its disabled customers accessing fresh produce. Co-op has installed the inaccessible chiller cabinets in at least two of its stores, but […]

Minister’s pledges are ‘beginning of the end’ of rail assistance ‘chaos’ and ‘nonsense’, says disabled peer

By John Pring on 7th November 2024 Category: Transport

Minister’s pledges are ‘beginning of the end’ of rail assistance ‘chaos’ and ‘nonsense’, says disabled peer
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Labour’s rail minister had made a series of promises that could see “the beginning of the end” of sub-standard assistance for disabled passengers on the railway, following lobbying by two disabled peers. Lord Hendy, former chair of Network Rail, told the […]

Disabled artists ‘facing Access to Work cuts, backlogs and inflexibility’

By John Pring on 17th October 2024 Category: Employment

Disabled artists ‘facing Access to Work cuts, backlogs and inflexibility’
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Disabled people working in the creative and cultural sectors are increasingly seeing cuts to the support they receive through the Access to Work (AtW) scheme, campaigners have warned. Disabled artists have reported payments being stopped, cut or suspended by the Department […]

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