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Professor Tom Shakespeare

Disabled people ‘treated as afterthought throughout pandemic’, says academic

By John Pring on 29th April 2021 Category: Independent Living

Disabled people ‘treated as afterthought throughout pandemic’, says academic
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Disabled people have often been treated as “an afterthought” throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading disabled academic. Professor Tom Shakespeare told a webinar on Tuesday that disabled people had been disproportionately affected in multiple ways, including the disruption to […]

Urgent action needed on pandemic harm caused to disabled people, say researchers

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Human Rights

Urgent action needed on pandemic harm caused to disabled people, say researchers
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Urgent action is needed to “rectify the harm caused to disabled people” during the COVID-19 crisis and to learn lessons for subsequent waves of the virus, and other future pandemics, researchers have warned. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and the […]

Disabled passengers question watchdog’s rosy view of airport assistance

By John Pring on 19th July 2018 Category: Transport

Disabled passengers question watchdog’s rosy view of airport assistance
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Disabled people who use UK airports have questioned a report which found significant improvement in the provision of assistance to passengers over the last year. The Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) third annual report into the assistance provided at the UK’s 30 […]

University apologises after asking social model critic to deliver first ‘Finkelstein lecture’

By John Pring on 9th November 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

University apologises after asking social model critic to deliver first ‘Finkelstein lecture’
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A university has been forced to remove the name of a pioneer of the disabled people’s movement from an annual series of lectures, after it invited a leading critic of his work to deliver the first talk. The University of Leeds […]

Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’

By John Pring on 6th July 2017 Category: Independent Living

Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’
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The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by years of austerity and policies that have “degraded” the support mechanisms designed to enable independent living, leading figures in the disability movement have warned. They were speaking at the launch of […]

Using personal assistants works, research concludes… but it can go wrong

By John Pring on 6th July 2017 Category: Independent Living

Using personal assistants works, research concludes… but it can go wrong
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Enabling disabled people with support needs to employ personal assistants (PAs) – rather than relying on traditional care workers – can be empowering and liberating, but relationships with PAs “can sometimes go wrong”, according to new research. The Personal Assistance Relationships […]

Funding set to help researchers DRILL down into independent living barriers

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Independent Living

Funding set to help researchers DRILL down into independent living barriers
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Projects that will research how to help people with chronic illness speak out, tackle violence against disabled women, and judge the success of peer support initiatives are among 10 user-led schemes that have been awarded £400,000 in funding. The 10 research […]

New pre-natal testing technique is ‘further NHS step towards eugenics’

By John Pring on 18th August 2016 Category: Human Rights

New pre-natal testing technique is ‘further NHS step towards eugenics’
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Government plans to introduce a new safer form of pre-natal testing for Down’s syndrome and other conditions send a message to disabled people that they are “better off being dead than being born”, according to a leading activist. The Department of […]

‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’

By John Pring on 9th June 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Biopsychosocial’ basis for benefit cuts is ‘cavalier, unevidenced and misleading’
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The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than a decade is riddled with inconsistencies, misleading statements and “unevidenced” claims, according to three disabled academics. A new article by Professor Tom Shakespeare and Professor […]

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