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MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Human Rights

MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report
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Disabled activists have told MPs and peers of their frustration at not being able to hold the government to account for its “grave or systematic” breaches of the UN disability convention. The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities […]

Government denies missing stats would expose failure of disability strategy

By John Pring on 19th January 2017 Category: Independent Living

Government denies missing stats would expose failure of disability strategy
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The government has failed to provide annual figures that could have exposed the failure of its much-criticised disability strategy. The last time the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) provided an update for its Fulfilling Potential strategy was in November 2015, in […]

‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’

By John Pring on 7th July 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’
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A disabled-led network set up by the minister for disabled people in 2012 to offer the government advice on the implementation of its disability policies has cut the areas it focuses on to just one “strategic theme”. Esther McVey, then the […]

Ministers withdraw support from their own disability network

By John Pring on 18th February 2016 Category: Politics

Ministers withdraw support from their own disability network
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Ministers have withdrawn much of their support for a disability network they set up just three years ago, casting fresh doubts on the government’s disability strategy and the future of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI). ODI announced this week that […]

Choice and control have plunged under Tories, say government figures

By John Pring on 28th August 2015 Category: Human Rights

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The government is facing an embarrassing slump in one of the key measures of the success of its disability strategy: the proportion of disabled people who feel they have choice and control in their lives. The results were included in the […]

Disability minister gives first interview to… his own department

By John Pring on 21st August 2015 Category: Politics

Disability minister gives first interview to… his own department
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The minister for disabled people has invited ridicule after giving his first major interview since his appointment to a senior civil servant in his own department. Justin Tomlinson was appointed as minister in mid-May, but in three months he does not […]

ODI’s future questioned after DWP refuses to calculate spending cuts

By John Pring on 9th January 2015 Category: News Archive, Politics

ODI’s future questioned after DWP refuses to calculate spending cuts
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The future of the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has been cast into doubt, after the government claimed it was unable to calculate how much of its budget had been cut since 2012. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has […]

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