• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About DNS
  • Subscribe to DNS
  • Advertise with DNS
  • Support DNS
  • Contact DNS

Disability News Service

the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues

  • Home
  • Independent Living
    • Arts, Culture and Sport
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Housing
    • Transport
  • Activism & Campaigning
  • Benefits & Poverty
  • Politics
  • Human Rights
You are here: Home / Archives for National Federation of the Blind UK

National Federation of the Blind UK

Queen’s speech: Six bills that may change disabled people’s lives, for better and for worse

By John Pring on 12th May 2022 Category: Politics

Queen’s speech: Six bills that may change disabled people’s lives, for better and for worse
Listen

At least six pieces of legislation proposed by the government this week are likely to have a life-changing impact on hundreds of thousands of disabled people if they become law over the next year. The Queen’s speech, delivered by Prince Charles […]

Protesters demand end to shared space ‘no go zones’

By John Pring on 7th September 2017 Category: Transport

Protesters demand end to shared space ‘no go zones’
Listen

Campaigners from across the country gathered outside parliament this week to call for an end to unsafe “shared space” street designs, which risk turning public spaces into “no go zones” for many disabled and older people. The protest (pictured) was organised […]

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to the free Access London Theatre Guide

Access

Latest Stories

Disabled mum took her own life after actions of DWP and Capita ‘magnified’ anxiety

Public inquiry on inaccessible footbridge will be ‘line in the sand’, say activists

Thousands of disabled people tell MPs: Cost-of-living crisis is affecting our health

Cost-of-living debate sparked by petitions ‘provides campaigning momentum’

MPs raise concerns over DWP death evidence ‘cover-up’

Watchdog holds back verdict on latest care sector concerns

Fresh doubts over impact of government’s ‘scrap the WCA’ plans

DWP hid vital evidence from starvation death inquiry, board confirms

Document shows NHS England apologised for backing harmful SIM scheme

Disabled activists end campaign after unveiling NHS England’s SIM scheme confession

Advice and Information

Readspeaker

Footer

The International Standard Serial Number for Disability News Service is: ISSN 2398-8924

  • Accessibility Statement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2023 Disability News Service

Site development by A Bright Clear Web