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Ministers delayed publishing a report that called for more research into the benefits of accessible housing for up to four years, Disability News Service can reveal. The report, by architectural firm PRP, was finally published last week by the Ministry of […]
Disabled people who lease their own flats in high-rise buildings have been left frightened for their lives, but also in fear of losing their homes, because of the government’s failure to address the growing post-Grenfell safety scandal. A new campaign group, […]
The government has been accused of “showing contempt” for disabled people after publishing an “utterly shameful” 84-page white paper on the future of the planning system without including a single mention of disabled people, disability or accessible housing. The Planning for […]
The government is facing the threat of legal action over its failure to take action to solve the crisis in accessible housing. The housing, communities and local government secretary Robert Jenrick has been told that he may have acted unlawfully over […]
The government has failed to ease fears that it plans to scrap a vital grant that has been supporting former users of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) for more than three years. The four-year Former ILF Recipient Grant was agreed in […]
New large public buildings such as shopping centres, sports stadiums and cinema complexes will soon have to include a Changing Places accessible toilet, according to government proposals. The government has announced a consultation on the plans – which will also affect […]
The government should implement major changes to the scheme that provides funding for disabled people in England to make access improvements to their homes, according to an independent review. Among the suggested improvements, the review says the government should increase the […]
The government has been criticised by disabled campaigners and the equality watchdog after its new social housing green paper failed to include a single mention of the accessible housing crisis. Only three months ago, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]
The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made by a committee of MPs that were aimed at improving disabled people’s access to the built environment. The women and equalities committee concluded in its report last April that disabled people […]