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Disabled campaigners have welcomed the human rights watchdog’s decision to begin legal action against the government over its repeated failure to address the “distressing and horrific” treatment of people with learning difficulties and autistic people in mental health hospitals. The Equality […]
People with learning difficulties have ensured that Labour party members have heard their voices on the impact of austerity on their lives. Many of those who spoke out at an event on the fringes of this week’s annual conference in Brighton […]
A disabled actor has called on the film industry to see her as a woman and a performer first, rather than focusing on her impairment. Sarah Gordy, who has appeared in primetime BBC One dramas Upstairs Downstairs and Call the Midwife […]
Leading figures in the self-advocacy movement hope that a new campaigning alliance will help to hold political parties and the government to account in the run-up to the next election. Learning Disability Alliance England will be launched in Manchester later this […]