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Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election but has been closed … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, Eleanor Lisney AOEF, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, LIz Sayce, More United, The Government Equalities Office (GEO) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a 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

Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space

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  By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The bus industry is facing fresh legal action over its failure to ensure disabled people have access to the designated wheelchair spaces on buses, six months after a Supreme Court … Continue reading →

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Posted in Dept of Transport, Equality Act, Tory, Transport for All | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

DWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial

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  By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its promises not to harass a traumatised benefit claimant while he waits to give vital evidence in a child abuse trial. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Conservatives, Disabled Survivors Unite, DWP, Equality Act, Human Rights, Justin Tomlinson, Maximus, PIP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Court awards disabled woman ‘aggravated’ damages for ombudsman discrimination

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  By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A county court has delivered a devastating judgment against the Local Government Ombudsman, after it discriminated against a disabled woman by failing to provide the reasonable adjustments she needed to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Department for Communities and Local Government, Disability Discrimination, Equality Act, ICO Information Commissioners Office, Jannine Blamires, Yorkshire County Council | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Politics | Leave a reply

Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and identifying measures to help you and other claimants. It would be good to have some feedback on the Health and … Continue reading →

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Posted in BMA, Conservative Disability Group, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, GMC, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, Tories, UC, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | 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

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

Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants

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By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017 Fresh evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to allow benefit claimants to communicate via email, despite its claims that it allows disabled people with “valid reasons” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Civil Legal Advice, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Equality Act | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Welfare | 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

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