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Motability customers ‘will benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding’

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Transport

Motability customers ‘will benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding’
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Disabled people and families with disabled children will benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding released by the company that runs the Motability car scheme. Motability Operations announced on Friday that it would release £370 million from its […]

Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’

By John Pring on 22nd March 2018 Category: Politics

Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
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The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy – which was aimed at “improving the lives of disabled people” – and abandoned any idea of replacing it. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) yesterday refused to say what […]

Government’s response to Equality Act report is ‘disgusting travesty’

By John Pring on 14th July 2016 Category: Human Rights

Government’s response to Equality Act report is ‘disgusting travesty’
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The government’s response to a major House of Lords inquiry into the impact of the Equality Act on disabled people – in which it appears to have accepted just eight of 55 recommendations – has been branded a “wasted opportunity”. The […]

School admissions process ‘discriminates against disabled parents’

By John Pring on 26th May 2016 Category: Education

School admissions process ‘discriminates against disabled parents’
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A disabled parent has accused his local authority of discriminating against him by refusing to take his access needs into account when deciding which primary school his son can attend in September. Youcef Bey-Zekkoub believes the school admissions process discriminates against […]

‘Conflict of interest’ lawyer to chair EHRC, as minister ignores MPs’ concerns

By John Pring on 28th April 2016 Category: Human Rights

‘Conflict of interest’ lawyer to chair EHRC, as minister ignores MPs’ concerns
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The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns about a potential conflict of interest caused by his firm’s work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Government […]

Primary school’s exclusion of disabled pupils ‘an utter disgrace’

By John Pring on 7th April 2016 Category: Education

Primary school’s exclusion of disabled pupils ‘an utter disgrace’
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The government is refusing to act over claims that a primary school excluded up to 30 pupils – many of them disabled – to smooth its path to becoming a self-governing “academy”.  Nonsuch primary in Birmingham moved from local authority control […]

Tory MPs’ ‘cynical and shabby’ behaviour over ‘cut and paste’ letters

By John Pring on 19th June 2015 Category: Politics

Tory MPs’ ‘cynical and shabby’ behaviour over ‘cut and paste’ letters
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Conservative MPs have been accused of “horribly cynical, shabby” behaviour after sending out identical “template” letters explaining why they would not back a community inclusion bill named after a young disabled man who drowned in an NHS unit. Campaigners had approached […]

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