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Charities help cover up real reason government announced blue badge changes

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Transport

Charities help cover up real reason government announced blue badge changes
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Disability charities are facing questions over why they helped the government disguise the reason it had to change “discriminatory” guidance that was preventing thousands of disabled people with invisible impairments from securing blue parking badges. The Department for Transport (DfT) announced […]

Oliver comes out of retirement to deliver stinging rebuke to ‘parasite’ charities

By John Pring on 30th November 2017 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Oliver comes out of retirement to deliver stinging rebuke to ‘parasite’ charities
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One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first defined the “social model of disability”, was speaking at […]

Scope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’

By John Pring on 27th July 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Scope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’
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An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell all its residential homes and special schools, and re-position itself as a “social change organisation”, is an attempt to invade the ground occupied by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), say critics. The […]

Scope’s decision to close Disability Now ‘is a tragedy’

By John Pring on 15th December 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Scope’s decision to close Disability Now ‘is a tragedy’
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The disability charity Scope is to close its disabled-led online publication Disability Now (DN) in a bid to cut costs, more than 30 years after it first appeared as a newspaper. But questions have been asked over Scope’s decision to continue […]

Big disability charities ‘are selling out disabled people’ by seeking DWP contracts

By John Pring on 8th December 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Big disability charities ‘are selling out disabled people’ by seeking DWP contracts
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The country’s largest disability charities have been accused of “selling out” disabled people, as they look set to play a significant role in providing back-to-work services under the government’s new Work and Health Programme. Disability News Service (DNS) has contacted seven […]

DPOs criticise DWP for excluding them from green paper launch

By John Pring on 3rd November 2016 Category: Employment

DPOs criticise DWP for excluding them from green paper launch
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Grassroots disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have criticised the government’s decision to exclude them from an event held to launch its new work, health and disability green paper. The event for “stakeholders” was hosted by the disability charity Scope at its London […]

Backlash from activists over Scope’s attempt to ‘End the Awkward’

By John Pring on 7th August 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Backlash from activists over Scope’s attempt to ‘End the Awkward’
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A disability charity has been criticised by disabled activists for ploughing its resources into an “embarrassing” and “hypocritical” new campaign that has cost nearly £1 million. Scope released a series of six comic sketches, produced in conjunction with Channel 4, which […]

‘Sinister’ new lobbying laws ‘are closing down debate’

By John Pring on 21st February 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Sinister’ new lobbying laws ‘are closing down debate’
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Disability organisations have been intimidated by new lobbying laws – and the risk of losing government contracts – into failing to campaign on key issues like social care and welfare reform in the run-up to the general election, say disabled campaigners. […]

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