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Home Office’s ‘inhumane’ deportation decision poses ‘risk to life’

By John Pring on 10th January 2019 Category: Human Rights

Home Office’s ‘inhumane’ deportation decision poses ‘risk to life’
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Autistic rights campaigners are calling on the government to reverse its “inhumane” decision to ignore detailed, independent medical evidence and force a young disabled man with high support needs and his family to return to India. Disabled activists from Autistic UK […]

Sharp fall in disability hate crime referrals by police

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Crime

Sharp fall in disability hate crime referrals by police
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The Home Office has been unable to explain why the number of disability hate crime cases referred to prosecutors by the police plunged last year by nearly a quarter, and why successful prosecutions of such offences fell even more sharply. In […]

Home Office IT failure stalls disabled civil servant’s career, MPs hear

By John Pring on 1st February 2018 Category: Employment

Home Office IT failure stalls disabled civil servant’s career, MPs hear
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A disabled civil servant has told MPs how her career has stalled because of the failure of the IT systems in the Home Office to cope with the assistive technology she needs to do her job. Jo-Ann Moran, a senior executive […]

Major law reform would help close ‘huge justice gap’ on disability hate crime

By John Pring on 30th November 2017 Category: Crime

Major law reform would help close ‘huge justice gap’ on disability hate crime
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Academics have called for a new hate crime act and other key legal reforms to address the “huge justice gap” that affects victims of disability hate crime, following a major two-year study. Researchers at the University of Sussex, led by Dr […]

Second year of huge rises in disability hate crime, but causes still unclear

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Crime

Second year of huge rises in disability hate crime, but causes still unclear
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The number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police rose by more than 50 per cent last year, according to new figures released by the Home Office. The rise in recorded disability hate crimes (53 per cent) was larger than […]

‘Deplorable’ Home Office guidance ‘will breach rights of disabled asylum-seekers’

By John Pring on 4th August 2016 Category: Human Rights

‘Deplorable’ Home Office guidance ‘will breach rights of disabled asylum-seekers’
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Home Office guidance that will allow immigration detention centre staff to ignore medical advice and place disabled asylum-seekers in solitary confinement is part of an “increasingly coercive approach towards people with mental health challenges”, say campaigners. The draft guidance says that […]

Crime stats ‘are wake-up call’ on link between ‘demonization’ and targeted violence

By John Pring on 21st April 2016 Category: Crime

Crime stats ‘are wake-up call’ on link between ‘demonization’ and targeted violence
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Disabled people in England and Wales are now almost three-and-half times more likely than non-disabled people to be a victim of serious violent crime, according to new research that has been described as “a wake-up call to politicians”. The new analysis […]

Security industry silent on flaws in disability equality training for bouncers

By John Pring on 4th February 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Security industry silent on flaws in disability equality training for bouncers
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By Raya Al Jadir and John Pring The security industry is facing accusations that its training and policies take almost no account of disabled people, and risk subjecting them to repeated discrimination at the hands of bouncers and other security staff. […]

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