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Snap survey reveals disabled people’s ‘fear and desperation’ ahead of likely cuts to benefits

By John Pring on 30th January 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Snap survey reveals disabled people’s ‘fear and desperation’ ahead of likely cuts to benefits
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The responses of disabled people who answered a question about the likely impact of expected government cuts to disability benefits have revealed a worrying level of “fear and desperation”, say campaigners. They were responding to a question posed on social media […]

Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country

By John Pring on 12th September 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country
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A disabled people’s organisation is hoping its new disability justice project will draw support from across the country and create change in both government policy and public attitudes, as well as addressing the sense of “inevitability” around disability poverty. One of […]

Social model support scheme that tackles barriers secures nearly £600,000 funding

By John Pring on 8th August 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Social model support scheme that tackles barriers secures nearly £600,000 funding
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A peer support scheme that has helped hundreds of disabled people in a single borough with the barriers they face in their daily lives has secured nearly £600,000 in funding over the next five years to continue its work. Inclusion Barnet’s […]

‘Game-changing’ £1.5 million will fuel ALLFIE’s fight for inclusive education

By John Pring on 21st December 2023 Category: Education

‘Game-changing’ £1.5 million will fuel ALLFIE’s fight for inclusive education
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A £1.5 million grant has helped secure the long-term future of the disabled people’s organisation (DPO) that leads the fight for inclusive education in the UK. The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) said the grant would be spread across the next […]

Guidance ‘will boost confidence’ of employers who want to recruit disabled people

By John Pring on 8th June 2023 Category: Employment

Guidance ‘will boost confidence’ of employers who want to recruit disabled people
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New guidance that stresses that employers are allowed to reserve jobs for disabled people should help narrow the disability employment gap, say the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that asked for the legal advice to be published. Inclusion Barnet’s chief executive, Caroline […]

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’
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Campaigners have called on local authorities to turn their backs on policies that force disabled people into residential homes against their will and therefore “seriously threaten the right to independent living”. The calls came after it emerged that Bristol City Council […]

Mayor’s ‘ultra low emission zone’ plans ‘will impact tens of thousands of disabled people’

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Transport

Mayor’s ‘ultra low emission zone’ plans ‘will impact tens of thousands of disabled people’
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Plans to widen the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital will discriminate against tens of thousands of disabled Londoners and cause significant harm to many of them, a senior representative of the mayor of London has been told. Disabled people’s […]

New coalition will shine spotlight on ‘devastating’ impact of cost-of-living crisis

By John Pring on 14th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

New coalition will shine spotlight on ‘devastating’ impact of cost-of-living crisis
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A new coalition of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) is aiming to shine a spotlight on the “devastating impact” of the spiralling cost of living that is “threatening disabled people’s survival”. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) warned this week that DPOs […]

Minister rejects call for extra time to respond to controversial disability benefits proposals

By John Pring on 12th August 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister rejects call for extra time to respond to controversial disability benefits proposals
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The minister for disabled people has ignored calls to give disabled people more time to respond to controversial proposals in his disability benefits green paper. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and allies have written an open letter to Justin Tomlinson, to warn […]

Government agrees to examine ‘troubling’ case of cost-cutting care home council

By John Pring on 27th June 2019 Category: Independent Living

Government agrees to examine ‘troubling’ case of cost-cutting care home council
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The government has agreed to examine the “troubling” example of a Tory-run council that plans to undermine the rights of disabled people to live independently by forcing them into residential homes as a cost-cutting measure. Barnet council’s policy was challenged in […]

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