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Documentary provides ‘remarkable’ insight into pandemic lives

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Documentary provides ‘remarkable’ insight into pandemic lives
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A new documentary film has provided an insight into the lives of individual disabled people in Wales during the coronavirus pandemic. The 35-minute Unlocked Lives film was produced by Disability Wales, and features a series of disabled people sharing their views […]

Government’s lockdown-lifting ‘gamble’ is ‘utterly reckless’, say DPOs

By John Pring on 8th July 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government’s lockdown-lifting ‘gamble’ is ‘utterly reckless’, say DPOs
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Disabled people’s organisations have expressed their “grave concern” over the government’s “utterly reckless” decision to lift most of the remaining COVID-19 rules in England from 19 July. The move from “rules and regulations” to “guidance and good sense” – although final […]

Government ‘bans’ thousands of disabled fans from sporting test events

By John Pring on 15th April 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government ‘bans’ thousands of disabled fans from sporting test events
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The government is facing fresh accusations of disability discrimination, after apparently banning people who are “clinically extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19 from attending all nine of its sports, cultural and business “test” events. The nine events are taking place over the next […]

Disabled people highlight scores of lockdown concerns

By John Pring on 7th January 2021 Category: Independent Living

Disabled people highlight scores of lockdown concerns
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Disabled people have highlighted gaps in social security support, flaws in the shielding system and worries about access to vaccines, after they were asked to describe their concerns as England entered its third national coronavirus lockdown*. They raised scores of different […]

Disabled people ‘treated as afterthought again’, as England heads into second lockdown

By John Pring on 5th November 2020 Category: Human Rights

Disabled people ‘treated as afterthought again’, as England heads into second lockdown
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The government has treated disabled people who are at particular risk from coronavirus as an afterthought as the country heads into lockdown, just as it did in the early weeks of the pandemic, say campaigners. Disabled campaigners spoke out yesterday as […]

Outrage over ‘eugenicist’ lockdown comments of itsu boss

By John Pring on 5th November 2020 Category: Human Rights

Outrage over ‘eugenicist’ lockdown comments of itsu boss
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Disabled campaigners have expressed outrage at the boss of a fast-food chain – and its PR agency – after he said he would prefer to sacrifice “a few thousand lives of very old or vulnerable people” rather than having another national […]

Coronavirus: Pandemic crisis has entrenched social isolation, research finds

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus: Pandemic crisis has entrenched social isolation, research finds
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New user-led research has highlighted how the coronavirus crisis has entrenched social isolation among many disabled people. More than three-fifths (61 per cent) of the disabled people questioned by disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly (DCIS) said they felt socially isolated, […]

Coronavirus: Government’s lockdown decision ‘deliberately puts disabled people at risk’

By John Pring on 14th May 2020 Category: Politics

Coronavirus: Government’s lockdown decision ‘deliberately puts disabled people at risk’
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Disabled people have attacked the government’s decision to start lifting the lockdown that has been in place since March, and have warned that some people with long-term health conditions could pay for that move with their lives. The prime minister, Boris […]

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