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Covid inquiry ‘has shut out’ grassroots disabled people’s organisations

By John Pring on 8th December 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Covid inquiry ‘has shut out’ grassroots disabled people’s organisations
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Grassroots disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have expressed their frustration at being “shut out” of the Covid public inquiry. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has decided that 14 DPOs will not be allocated status as “core participants” in two crucial parts of the […]

We changed the way we operate due to Covid, disabled people’s organisations reveal

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

We changed the way we operate due to Covid, disabled people’s organisations reveal
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have made “significant” changes to the way they operate because of the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey has found. Nearly all the English DPOs that took part in the survey, carried out by disAbility Cornwall & Isles […]

DPO gives stark warning to disabled people about Covid pandemic

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Independent Living

DPO gives stark warning to disabled people about Covid pandemic
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A disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) has delivered a stark warning about the continuing seriousness of the Covid pandemic, and its impact on disabled people and DPOs. Buckinghamshire Disability Service (BuDS) has been working to inform disabled people in Buckinghamshire and wider […]

Covid inquiry ‘must examine catastrophic impact of pandemic on disabled people’

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Human Rights

Covid inquiry ‘must examine catastrophic impact of pandemic on disabled people’
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The COVID-19 public inquiry must dedicate “time and resources” to hearing directly from disabled people themselves so that it can examine the “catastrophic” impact the pandemic has had on them, according to a leading user-led organisation. Inclusion London spoke out this […]

Discrimination could be a cause of increased risk of Covid death, says ONS

By John Pring on 12th May 2022 Category: Human Rights

Discrimination could be a cause of increased risk of Covid death, says ONS
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Some of disabled people’s increased risk of death from Covid could be due to the discrimination they face, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has concluded. A new study into disabled people’s Covid-related deaths in England through the three waves of […]

Report calls for disability poverty action plan for Glasgow

By John Pring on 5th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Report calls for disability poverty action plan for Glasgow
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are set to play a key role in drawing up a plan to address disability poverty in Glasgow. The call for an action plan is one of the recommendations from a report for Glasgow City Council’s Social […]

DAN returns to London streets with message that ‘disabled people are not disposable’

By John Pring on 24th March 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DAN returns to London streets with message that ‘disabled people are not disposable’
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Members of the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN) were back on the streets on Friday, delivering demands to the government and protesting at the ongoing “hostile environment” facing disabled people, more than 10 years after their last demonstration. At one […]

Anger and disbelief over Johnson’s ‘red meat’ Covid announcement ‘that will cost lives’

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Human Rights

Anger and disbelief over Johnson’s ‘red meat’ Covid announcement ‘that will cost lives’
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The prime minister has been accused of risking the lives of millions of disabled people, after he announced that the final COVID-19 restrictions in England would probably be lifted a month earlier than previous planned. Boris Johnson said yesterday (Wednesday) that […]

Government’s disability strategy ‘fails on climate change and Covid’

By John Pring on 10th February 2022 Category: Human Rights

Government’s disability strategy ‘fails on climate change and Covid’
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The UK government’s National Disability Strategy has failed to address the “urgent challenges” posed by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to disabled academics and campaigners. In a new report, published by the Oxford University Disability Law and Policy Project, […]

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears

By John Pring on 21st October 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Government has shown disabled people ‘active contempt’ during pandemic, festival hears
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The pandemic has seen a “deliberate marginalisation” of disabled people by a UK government that has shown them “active contempt”, a leading disabled artist-activist has told a festival. Jess Thom told the disabled-led Neurostages arts festival in Glasgow that many of […]

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