Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
August18th 2016 Public transport providers and local authorities are using loopholes in legislation to avoid their legal obligations to
Continue readingBus companies ‘using loopholes’ to evade access laws
11th August 2016 A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap
Continue readingCharity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap
11th August 2016 A nurse has been struck off after pretending that she had assessed disabled people for their eligibility
Continue readingAtos nurse struck off over PIP assessment lies
11th August 2016 John Pring DWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse The Department
Continue readingDWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse
4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disabled campaigner has launched a new photo-based website that has put
Continue readingAccess website’s inclusive solution after one man’s lifetime of photography
4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disabled man was left to survive on the streets of London
Continue readingHomeless ordeal of disabled man forced onto streets by hospital
4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disability benefits assessor with extreme right-wing sympathies has been suspended by
Continue readingCapita suspends assessor after disablist, racist Facebook posts
Angry campaigners have attacked the government’s new hate crime action plan for its “totally disrespectful” failure to address problems
Continue readingGovernment’s hate crime plan’s ‘unforgiveable’ failure on disability
Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after a long court battle to get those taking
Continue readingCampaigners Call for Boycott Of Workfare Slave Labourers
Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands
Continue readingFunding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’
Campaigners have warned disabled people considering a move to Scotland in the wake of the European Union (EU) referendum vote
Continue readingScotland ‘is not an easy option’ for England’s disabled Brexit refugees
A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help
Continue readingDisability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut
A disabled-led network set up by the minister for disabled people in 2012 to offer the government advice on the
Continue reading‘Single theme’ decision of government’s Action Alliance ‘feels like a cop-out’
The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his
Continue readingTomlinson admits to ignorance about biopsychosocial model
A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just
Continue readingDWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor
Hundreds or even thousands of disabled people are so alarmed by the idea of Britain leaving the European Union (EU)
Continue readingBrexit vote: Disabled people seek safe haven in Scotland
Only about seven in 10 disabled people who were previously claiming disability living allowance (DLA)
Continue readingPIP figures fuel concerns over cuts, while activists plan day of action
A police force has launched an internal review of its treatment of disabled people, after it was forced to refer
Continue readingPolice force faces two watchdog probes over treatment of autistic people
Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic
Continue readingFirst figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’
Arts leaders must do more to tackle the “acute” lack of opportunities for disabled actors on stage and screen, according