By Tommy Shepard FOUR elections and a referendum: It’s been a helluva five years. With the new SNP Government now […]
A feature article by Mo Stewart For the purposes of budgeting, politicians discuss welfare and healthcare seperately. Of course, in […]
Arts leaders must do more to tackle the “acute” lack of opportunities for disabled actors on stage and screen, according […]
Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used […]
Four-fifths of disabled teachers face harassment and discrimination at the hands of head teachers and other senior managers, disabled […]
Union delegates say the government’s decision to reverse planned cuts to its new disability benefit could be a turning-point in […]
A disabled parent has accused his local authority of discriminating against him by refusing to take his access needs […]
A traumatised child abuse victim has branded the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “shameful” for trying to force him […]
Friday 20th May 2016 Addressing the TUC Disabled Worker’s Conference at Transport House in London today Shadow Chancellor of the […]
In a Debate after the Queens speech Deidre Brock MP said the following at 8.58; https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-05-18/debates/16051856000002/DebateOnTheAddress#contribution-16051881000088 “Let me offer […]
By Raya Al Jadir New research will investigate the “untold stories” of disabled lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) […]
A police force already under investigation for disability hate crime failures when dealing with a young autistic man is now […]
The government may have abandoned its target to halve the disability employment gap, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. […]
A string of user-led organisations have warned that the government’s “horrifying” plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace […]
The computer system used for new personal independence payment (PIP) claims has crashed twice in a week, just days after […]
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) appears to have exposed hundreds of disabled people to the activities of a fraudster and […]
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