4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disability benefits assessor with extreme right-wing sympathies has been suspended by […]
Angry campaigners have attacked the government’s new hate crime action plan for its “totally disrespectful” failure to address problems […]
Disabled campaigners have given mixed reviews to a new version of the government’s Disability Confident employment scheme, with one saying […]
A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help […]
A disabled solicitor has accused his governing body of forcing him to abandon disabled clients without legal representation, after it […]
Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after a long court battle to get those taking […]
WHEN was the last time a mass social democratic party anywhere in the world was formally forbidden to meet? The best answer I can come up with is 1973, in the wake of the military takeover in Chile.
Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands […]
A campaigning alliance has called for disabled people and their organisations to join its fight to use the UN disability […]
The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures […]
Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they […]
One of Britain’s biggest stars from the London 2012 Paralympics has said she is “scared” that she will lose her […]
Disabled activists say they are “deeply concerned” by the “troubling” decision to appoint an outspoken supporter of legalising assisted suicide […]
Since the Channel 4 Paralympics trailer was unveiled last week, the reaction has been almost universally positive. And understandably so. […]
This is the speech given by Jeremy Corbyn at UCL Institute of Education when he launched his bid for re-election […]
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