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Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving the European Union (EU) could see their rights “lost or watered down”, according to a disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, CRPD, EHRC | Tagged Austerity, Brexit, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD | 1 Reply

Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) throughout its seven years, who made a “fundamental” contribution to disabled people’s liberation, and who … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights Commission (DRC, DRUK, EHRC, Equality Act, Human Rights, LIz Sayce, Motability, Motobility, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Sir Bert Massie, Spartacus Network | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Activists fighting ‘assisted suicide’ laws now need ‘hard facts’ for battle ahead

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  By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 Disabled activists will need to seek out more “hard facts” if they want to fight off the continuing threat of efforts to persuade the courts to legalise assisted suicide, according … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, ECHR, Liz Carr, Not Dead Yet | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

Activists set for ‘David and Goliath’ fight to defeat assisted suicide court bid

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 A group of disabled activists – led by a crossbench peer – are to intervene in a legal case for the first time next week, in a bid to persuade three … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, ECHR, Euthanasia, Not Dead Yet | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, NDY, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017   The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by years of austerity and policies that have “degraded” the support mechanisms designed to enable independent living, leading figures in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Dr Andrea Stockl, Dr Tom Porter, Equal Lives, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts, Inclusion London, Independant Living Alternatives, NCIL, Professor Tom Shakespeare, UN, UNCRPD | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Society, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

New disabled commissioner ‘astounded and offended’ by EHRC treatment

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By John Pring Disability News Service 29th June 2017 A disabled peer who thought he had been appointed as the next disability commissioner – only to be told the post had been abolished – has been left “astounded and offended” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC, Government Equalities Offfice, Lord Shinkwin, Sir Bert Massie | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

New disabled MP was former campaigns officer for BCODP

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017   One of the two disabled Labour MPs elected to parliament for the first time earlier this month is a former campaigns officer for the British Council of Disabled People (BCODP), … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Anne Pridmore, Baroness Jane Campbell, Jared O Mara | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, DNS, John Pring, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

Scrapping EHRC disability commissioner role ‘risks sidelining disability’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 The “rash” decision to scrap the role of disability commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will make it harder for the watchdog to stand up to attacks … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC, HOL, Labour Party, Lord Shinkwin, Sir Bert Massie | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again failing to defend disabled people from attacks on their rights, after its peers refused to vote against “discriminatory” cuts to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Bakewell, Baroness Jane Campbell, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mourdant, PIP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | 1 Reply

Disabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people of “spinning like crazy” in an attempt to defend the government’s latest cuts to benefits for people with mental health … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme to find jobs for disabled people and other marginalised groups. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Green Paper, Maximus, People Plus, Remploy, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged A4e, Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, G4S, John Pring, Maximus, People Plus, Politics, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Peer pressure sees minister finally announce date for taxi access laws

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The government has finally announced the date when it will bring into force regulations that will ban taxi drivers from discriminating against wheelchair-users, more than 20 years after they were … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Dept of Transport, Equality Act | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news | Leave a reply

‘We must keep banging the drum,’ says bus campaigner after five-year fight for justice

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  By John Pring- Disability News Service 19/01/2017 The disabled activist who yesterday won a ground-breaking legal victory that protects the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has said he does not regret the five years he has spent … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Equality Act, Supreme Court, Transport for All | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, UK news | Leave a reply

Disabled researcher’s book exposes ‘corporate demolition of welfare state’

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15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ A string of activists, academics, politicians and journalists have welcomed the publication of a new book by a disabled researcher which exposes how successive governments have planned the “demolition of the welfare state”. Mo Stewart … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Maximus, Mo Stewart, Peter Beresford, Prof Danny Dorling, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, UKDPC, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Dame Anne Begg, Mary O'Hara, Sir Bert Massie | Leave a reply

Government must rip up response to Equality Act report, say disabled peers

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September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service Disabled peers have demanded that the government rips up its “frustrating”, “clichéd” and “tepid” response to a major House of Lords report on the Equality Act’s impact on disabled people. The Equality … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Peers, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

EHRC earns cautious approval for response to Equality Act report

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The equality watchdog has earned cautious approval for its response to recommendations made by a House of Lords committee that examined the impact of the Equality Act on disabled people. The committee concluded earlier this year that the government was … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, DRUK, EHRC | Tagged Disability News Service, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Politics, Society | Leave a reply

EU laws ‘have played crucial role’ in fight for disability rights

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Disabled people have been urged to recognise the importance of the European Union (EU) in maintaining and building on their rights, across areas such as access to information, transport and accessible goods and services. The call for disabled people to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Baroness Jane Campbell, Disability Discrimination, EHRC, Human Rights | Tagged Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

Activists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’

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Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests disabled people are better off dead. The protest outside the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London’s West End was coordinated by … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Disability Discrimination, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Liz Carr, Not Dead Yet | Tagged Baroness Jane Campbell, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Liz Carr, Me Before You, Not Dead Yet UK, Trailblazers, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

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