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Tory conference: Disability charities face questions over Conservative links

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Disability charities face questions over Conservative links
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Two disability charities are facing questions over their close links to the Conservative party, after they failed to challenge the minister for disabled people about government policies at a conference fringe event. Both Bipolar UK and the Epilepsy Society have close […]

Tory conference: Newton ‘breaches ministerial code’ while dodging questions

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Newton ‘breaches ministerial code’ while dodging questions
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The minister for disabled people appears to have breached the ministerial code of conduct, after refusing to answer questions at her party’s annual conference and suggesting that civil servants could answer them for her instead. Sarah Newton’s office had failed to […]

Tory conference: Newton admits DWP needs to improve

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory conference: Newton admits DWP needs to improve
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The minister for disabled people has admitted that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) needs to “make improvements” in order to increase disabled people’s “confidence” in the social security system. Sarah Newton told a fringe event at her party’s annual […]

Tory party conference: Potential of assistive technology is ‘truly transformatory’

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Employment

Tory party conference: Potential of assistive technology is ‘truly transformatory’
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Developments in assistive technology over the next few years have the potential to be “truly, truly transformatory” for disabled people, a fringe event at the Conservative party conference heard this week. Neil Heslop, chief executive of the disability charity Leonard Cheshire, […]

Ministers quietly drop plans for ‘parallel process’ on working-age social care

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Independent Living

Ministers quietly drop plans for ‘parallel process’ on working-age social care
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Ministers have quietly decided to include the support needs of working-age disabled people in their new social care green paper, scrapping the idea of having a separate “parallel programme of work” as they try to address the social care funding crisis. […]

Anger over government’s ‘pathetic’ election access report

By John Pring on 6th September 2018 Category: Independent Living

Anger over government’s ‘pathetic’ election access report
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The government’s response to a consultation on how to make voting more accessible to disabled people has sparked anger among disabled campaigners, after it failed to offer a single new measure to improve access. One disabled campaigner branded the government’s report […]

Minister snubs DPOs – and ‘breaches UN convention’ – by refusing meeting

By John Pring on 23rd August 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Minister snubs DPOs – and ‘breaches UN convention’ – by refusing meeting
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The minister for disabled people is refusing to meet a coalition of disabled people’s organisations, in an apparent breach of the UN disability convention. The coalition wrote to Sarah Newton yesterday (Wednesday) to express its “deep disappointment and concern” about her […]

Retailers back UK’s first ‘accessible shopping day’

By John Pring on 16th August 2018 Category: Independent Living

Retailers back UK’s first ‘accessible shopping day’
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Major retailers have backed the launch of the UK’s first “accessible shopping day”, which will see businesses promise to introduce new measures to benefit their disabled customers. Purple Tuesday, to be held on 13 November, is being led by Purple, the […]

DWP refuses to pay £125 to discover number of disabled people in full-time jobs

By John Pring on 9th August 2018 Category: Employment

DWP refuses to pay £125 to discover number of disabled people in full-time jobs
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Ministers are refusing to commission work that would cost just £125 and would show how many disabled people are in full-time paid employment, and how that number has changed under successive Tory-led governments. Ministers, including the current work and pensions secretary […]

Global Disability Summit: Mordaunt retreats from UK’s ‘global leader on rights’ claims

By John Pring on 26th July 2018 Category: Politics

Global Disability Summit: Mordaunt retreats from UK’s ‘global leader on rights’ claims
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The international development secretary, Penny Mordaunt, has been forced to retreat from her government’s repeated claims that the UK is a “global leader in disability rights”. Her government has faced anger from the UK disabled people’s movement at its decision to […]

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