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Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]
A disabled campaigner has delivered a hand-written letter to the front door of 10 Downing Street, pleading with the prime minister to address the “serious” and unlawful discrimination she has experienced on the railway network. Sam Jennings wrote the three-page letter […]
A campaigning disabled woman who found herself trapped on a pavement by café furniture has forced her local council to rewrite its “ludicrous” and unlawful licensing policy after a successful legal action. Flick Williams, a visually-impaired powerchair-user, left a shoe shop […]
The energy regulator has struggled to explain how it can prevent disabled people being forced onto prepayment meters when it claims to have no powers to ensure power companies comply with the Equality Act. Ofgem said last week that it was […]
The new disabled boss of a legal advice organisation is hoping to use the position to address the “huge unmet need” for such support among disabled people across the country. Mike Smith (pictured), a former disability commissioner of the Equality and […]
Accessible transport campaigners have expressed shock and alarm at the decision of Network Rail to install an “innovative” railway footbridge that is completely inaccessible to many disabled people. Network Rail described the opening of the prototype bridge (pictured) as a “major […]
A public transport provider breached access laws by refusing to allow a wheelchair-user to board one of its buses, and then lied about its driver’s actions. Accessible transport campaigner Doug Paulley is taking legal action against Stagecoach after he was refused […]
A disabled woman has described how she was repeatedly denied permission to communicate with her work coach by telephone, thanks to the “barbarian” benefits systems run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Alana Cooper, from Preston, is one of […]
The equality watchdog has been told to take “urgent” action over its failure to persuade the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to sign a legally-binding agreement that would force it to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The Equality […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. […]