CPS hate crime statement wins support
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled campaigners say they are encouraged by a new public
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled campaigners say they are encouraged by a new public
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on
Continue readingLabour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2107 A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has intervened in a “hugely significant”
Continue readingDPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 The new boss of Disability Rights UK (DR UK) has pledged to
Continue readingDRUK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 Disabled activists behind a pioneering new project are aiming to build
Continue readingProject aims for inclusion and a collective voice for ‘spoonies’
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has been given the
Continue readingInclusion London set to test social model job support, after £775k grant
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by
Continue readingYears of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread
Continue readingElection forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government’s decision to appoint a second consecutive Tory
Continue readingConcern as minister appoints Tory peer as equality watchdog’s disability lead
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation
Continue readingDWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell
Continue readingDPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability
Continue readingGreen paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO
By John Pring Disability News service 23rd Febraury 2017 A chief constable has insisted that his police force was
Continue readingPolice force criticised after refusing to treat ‘lynch mob’ murder as hate crime
By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017 The solicitor general has agreed to appeal the allegedly “unduly lenient”
Continue readingSolicitor general appeals sentences on ‘disability hate crime’ murder
By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017 The chief executive of the UK’s most prominent national disabled people’s
Continue readingSayce announces retirement, as ‘she is shortlisted’ for EHRC appointment
By John Pring Disability News service November 25th 2016 The chancellor has shocked disabled activists by ignoring the
Continue readingChancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’
By John Pring Disability News Service Novemeber 17th 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged
by John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Grassroots disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have criticised the government’s decision to
Continue readingDPOs criticise DWP for excluding them from green paper launch