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Social model support scheme that tackles barriers secures nearly £600,000 funding

By John Pring on 8th August 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Social model support scheme that tackles barriers secures nearly £600,000 funding
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A peer support scheme that has helped hundreds of disabled people in a single borough with the barriers they face in their daily lives has secured nearly £600,000 in funding over the next five years to continue its work. Inclusion Barnet’s […]

Conservative candidate tells disabled voters: the social model of disability is ‘wokeness gone mad’

By John Pring on 3rd July 2024 Category: Politics

Conservative candidate tells disabled voters: the social model of disability is ‘wokeness gone mad’
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A Conservative election candidate was booed by an astonished audience of disabled activists yesterday when he dismissed the social model of disability as “discredited” and “wokeness gone mad”. Charles Fifield, a disabled former councillor and chartered surveyor, was speaking to the […]

New shadow minister pledges ‘better and wider engagement’ with disabled people

By John Pring on 23rd April 2020 Category: Politics

New shadow minister pledges ‘better and wider engagement’ with disabled people
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Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people has pledged to be a “good listener” and to ensure that her party considers the impact on disabled people of every one of its policies. Vicky Foxcroft (pictured) was speaking to Disability News Service […]

UN day of disabled people: Historic document throws light on birth of movement

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

UN day of disabled people: Historic document throws light on birth of movement
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A key document that helped many disabled activists develop their understanding of how they were being oppressed by society more than 40 years ago has been published for the first time. The document, Are We Oppressed?, was compiled in 1974 by […]

Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement
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A disabled researcher has suggested a way to bring the hundreds of thousands of people with chronic illness under the umbrella of the disabled people’s movement. Catherine Hale (pictured), who has lived with a diagnosis of ME for nearly 30 years, […]

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