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DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living

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

DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living
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A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) is to call on the capital’s mayor to do more to support disabled Londoners hit by the unfolding cost-of-living crisis. Inclusion London said this week that food and energy bills have been rising sharply over […]

Expansion of air pollution scheme ‘could have drastic impact on disabled people’

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Transport

Expansion of air pollution scheme ‘could have drastic impact on disabled people’
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The mayor of London’s plans for a huge expansion of the capital’s low emission zone for cars could have a drastic and discriminatory impact on disabled people, say campaigners. They fear that the current, limited exemptions for disabled people will leave […]

Round-up: Osime Brown, shielding, foster carers… and DWP’s ‘wolf’ appointment

By John Pring on 8th October 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Round-up: Osime Brown, shielding, foster carers… and DWP’s ‘wolf’ appointment
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Campaigners are calling on the government to abandon its plan to deport a young autistic man to Jamaica, a country he has not visited since he was four. The Home Office had planned to detain Osime Brown – who also has […]

Anger and frustration over mayor’s ‘recovery board’ failure

By John Pring on 24th September 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Anger and frustration over mayor’s ‘recovery board’ failure
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The mayor of London is facing anger from disabled campaigners over his decision to set up a board of nearly 30 senior figures to oversee the recovery from coronavirus in the capital without including any members representing disabled people. The aim […]

Mayor defends failure to include disabled people in COVID ‘recovery board’

By John Pring on 17th September 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mayor defends failure to include disabled people in COVID ‘recovery board’
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The mayor of London has defended his decision to set up a board of nearly 30 senior figures to oversee the recovery from coronavirus in the capital without including any members representing disabled people. Membership of the London Recovery Board is made […]

Coronavirus: ‘Greater clarity needed’ over mayor’s COVID-19 transport plans

By John Pring on 21st May 2020 Category: Transport

Coronavirus: ‘Greater clarity needed’ over mayor’s COVID-19 transport plans
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Accessible transport campaigners in London are continuing to fight for greater clarity around sweeping measure announced by the capital’s mayor as England begins to ease its coronavirus lockdown. Sadiq Khan has announced plans to create what he has called one of […]

Mayor’s research finds 10 years of social security cuts hit disabled Londoners hardest

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mayor’s research finds 10 years of social security cuts hit disabled Londoners hardest
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New research for the mayor of London has shown how 10 years of government welfare cuts and reforms have “discriminated” against disabled Londoners. The mayor of London has written to work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd to ask her to reverse […]

London’s mayor broke election promise to meet disabled people’s organisations

By John Pring on 7th December 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

London’s mayor broke election promise to meet disabled people’s organisations
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The mayor of London has refused to explain why he failed to keep his promise to meet representatives of the capital’s disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in his first 100 days in office. Labour’s Sadiq Khan made the pledge to three London […]

Mayor invests £200 million in making more tube stations accessible

By John Pring on 8th December 2016 Category: Transport

Mayor invests £200 million in making more tube stations accessible
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London’s new mayor has announced a significant increase in investment in making stations on the capital’s largely-inaccessible tube network step-free. At present, only 70 of 270 stations on the London Underground network are step-free to all platforms. But Sadiq Khan, who […]

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