Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities
Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities The Public Law Project (PLP) is
Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities The Public Law Project (PLP) is
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if
Continue readingEquality watchdog calls for court action over BA’s PA ticket ‘discrimination’
By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears
Continue readingAdmission by aviation regulator is latest step in assistance dogs aircraft battle
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited
Continue readingEight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13
Continue readingNHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work
Continue readingAccess to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made
Continue readingGovernment rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay
Continue readingAnger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –
Continue readingScrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me
Continue readingSpring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for
Continue readingAnger over Royal Society’s ‘love fest for euthanasia’ conference
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach
Continue readingLegal advice concerns after government abandons search for new contractors
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the
Continue readingDeaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability
Continue readingMotability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to
Continue readingWatchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th Feburary 2018 Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler
Continue readingDWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit
Continue readingBenefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive
Continue readingBenefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people will only be protected from online abuse when
Continue readingDisabled people need ‘equal and fair’ hate crime laws, MPs are told