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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 The Arts Council has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to the disability arts movement in
Continue readingArts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation
11th August 2016 The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it
Continue readingGovernment ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs
11th August 2016 Disabled activists are to hold a week of action to coincide with the start of the Rio
Continue readingDPAC will use Paralympics to highlight austerity impact in week of action
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 A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to
Continue readingDocuments show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy
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
The Department of Health has been heavily criticised for downgrading the seniority of the minister in charge of adult social
Continue readingDowngrading social care minister ‘is serious backward step’
A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help
Continue readingMaximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts
John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his
A campaigning alliance has called for disabled people and their organisations to join its fight to use the UN disability
Continue readingROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance
The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures
Continue readingDrop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’
One of Britain’s biggest stars from the London 2012 Paralympics has said she is “scared” that she will lose her
Continue readingCockroft’s fear of PIP reassessment and losing independence as she heads for Rio
Disabled activists say they are “deeply concerned” by the “troubling” decision to appoint an outspoken supporter of legalising assisted suicide
Continue readingConcern over Mordaunt’s ‘troubling’ appointment as disability minister
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’