Long-awaited Newton meeting confirms confusion over DPO engagement
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised ongoing concerns about the government’s failure to comply with…
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Shock and anger at government’s failure to invite DPOs to disability workshop
Campaigners have been left “shocked and appalled” by the government’s decision to hold a workshop…
ROFA lays out plans to make the right to independent living a reality
Campaigning disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have set out their demands for a new national independent…
UN day of disabled people: Government could face court over universal credit
The government could be forced into court to defend its failure to make the much-criticised…
Anger over government’s ‘pathetic’ election access report
The government’s response to a consultation on how to make voting more accessible to disabled…
Government ‘discriminated against DPOs’ in awarding £29m development programme
The equality watchdog is examining claims that the government has discriminated against UK disabled people’s…
Global Disability Summit: Disability Rights UK ‘betrayed movement’ with speech
A national disabled people’s organisation is facing accusations that it “betrayed” the UK disability movement…
Rival international summit aims to highlight government’s ‘global hypocrisy’
Disabled activists and their organisations are to host their own international “solidarity summit” in a…
Kamil Ahmad: Anger over review’s failure to expose systemic flaws that led to murder
The brother of a disabled asylum-seeker who was brutally murdered by a racist neighbour has…
Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders
Disabled asylum-seekers and activists have come together to seek fundamental changes to the systems and…