Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
The equality watchdog has earned cautious approval for its response to recommendations made by a House of Lords committee that
Continue readingEHRC earns cautious approval for response to Equality Act report
Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they
Continue readingDelayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’
One of the two prospective candidates to challenge UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused over his record
Continue readingOwen Smith challenged over disability record
The right of the PLP are faced with an impossible conundrum. On the one hand, many of them believe that
A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just
Continue readingDWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor
UN experts have expressed serious concerns about the impact of government austerity on the rights of disabled people and other
Continue readingUN report raises ‘deep concerns’ about impact of austerity on disabled people
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of doctors to vote strongly against relaxing their union’s position on physician-assisted suicide. The
Continue readingRelief after doctors maintain strong opposition to assisted suicide
A police force has launched an internal review of its treatment of disabled people, after it was forced to refer
Continue readingPolice force faces two watchdog probes over treatment of autistic people
A minister has been urged to resign, after he threatened a traumatised child abuse survivor – who is waiting
Continue readingTomlinson faces call to resign over PIP harassment of child abuse survivor
Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently
Continue readingMinisters ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving
Continue readingReport finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress
Disabled people have been urged to recognise the importance of the European Union (EU) in maintaining and building on their
Continue readingEU laws ‘have played crucial role’ in fight for disability rights
Four-fifths of disabled teachers face harassment and discrimination at the hands of head teachers and other senior managers, disabled
Continue readingTUC Disabled Workers Conference: ‘Most disabled teachers face harassment’
Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests
Continue readingActivists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’
A traumatised child abuse victim has branded the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “shameful” for trying to force him
Continue readingDWP ‘puts child abuse trial at risk’ by insisting on PIP reassessment
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 26th May 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for Iain Duncan Smith to
Continue readingShadow chancellor backs calls to prosecute Iain Duncan Smith over WCA deaths
While the appropriate offence would be Misconduct in Public Office we would like share with you the following complaint to Northumbria
Continue readingBenefit Deaths: North East England Man Puts in Complaint to Northumbria Police
No civilian has any comprehension of life in British military forces, or the impact of the removal of that
Friday 20th May 2016 Addressing the TUC Disabled Worker’s Conference at Transport House in London today Shadow Chancellor of the