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BBC set for month-long season to mark 25th anniversary of Disability Discrimination Act

By John Pring on 29th October 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

BBC set for month-long season to mark 25th anniversary of Disability Discrimination Act
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The BBC is to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) next month with a series of dramas, documentaries, news packages and discussions. Among the month-long season will be a series of six 15-minute dramatic […]

Round-up: Secrecy on COVID impact, DWP assessments, shielding, Graeae… and Autistica

By John Pring on 9th July 2020 Category: Human Rights

Round-up: Secrecy on COVID impact, DWP assessments, shielding, Graeae… and Autistica
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The government is refusing to release documents that would show the expected impact on disabled people of the legislation and policies it produced in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In May, Disability News Service (DNS) asked the Cabinet Office to release […]

Coronavirus: Action celebrates disability arts while highlighting pandemic concerns

By John Pring on 18th June 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Coronavirus: Action celebrates disability arts while highlighting pandemic concerns
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A day of action on social media has celebrated disability culture and highlighted the concerns of disabled artists about their future as they struggle with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Artists and cultural leaders shared work by disabled visual artists, […]

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival

By John Pring on 17th October 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disappointment at mayor’s scaled-back plans for Liberty arts festival
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Disabled artists have expressed disappointment at the mayor of London’s scaled-back plans for the capital’s annual disability arts festival, which has continued to shrink in size since its heyday in the mid-2000s. Liberty was originally launched by Ken Livingstone in 2003 […]

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts organisations secure £750k to boost number of disabled leaders
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Disabled-led organisations have secured funding of more than £750,000 to develop three separate programmes that will aim to produce more disabled leaders in the arts. All three of the programmes receiving funding from Arts Council England (ACE) are headed by disabled-led […]

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Disability arts misses out again, despite huge rise in diverse-led Arts Council funding
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Disability arts organisations have missed out on a huge increase in funding that has been handed to other diverse-led groups by Arts Council England (ACE). Although there has been a significant increase in the number of disability-led arts organisations that will […]

Sophie Partridge: Friends mourn activist and performer of ‘wit, wisdom and kindness’

By John Pring on 15th June 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Sophie Partridge: Friends mourn activist and performer of ‘wit, wisdom and kindness’
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Friends and fellow campaigners are mourning the loss of Sophie Partridge – a disabled performer, writer and activist of wit, wisdom and “genuine kindness” – who died last week. She was best-known for her work as an actor, performing in the […]

Call for drama schools to act after diversity research leaves campaigners ‘speechless’

By John Pring on 17th November 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Call for drama schools to act after diversity research leaves campaigners ‘speechless’
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Leading disabled actors have accused drama schools of not doing enough to recruit disabled students, and of hiding behind a “contrived” excuse for their failure to do so. Research by the campaign group Act for Change shows that not one of […]

Arts Council scheme should boost disabled arts leaders

By John Pring on 20th October 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Arts Council scheme should boost disabled arts leaders
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The Arts Council has announced that it is to spend more than £2.5 million on a programme that aims to increase the number of disabled people in senior leadership roles in England’s arts and cultural organisations. The £2.57 million Change Makers […]

Access to Work reforms will make arts ‘less diverse’, says Graeae

By John Pring on 20th March 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Access to Work reforms will make arts ‘less diverse’, says Graeae
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Reforms to the government scheme that supports disabled people at work will make the arts “less diverse at every level”, according to the country’s leading disabled-led theatre company. Graeae said the new Access to Work (AtW) rules would “terminate the careers […]

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