Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
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
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
The equality watchdog has earned cautious approval for its response to recommendations made by a House of Lords committee that
Continue readingEHRC earns cautious approval for response to Equality Act report
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
Disabled activists are calling on the UN to take action after elections to the 18-strong committee that oversees the implementation
Continue readingElection leaves UN disability committee with 17 men and just one woman
This morning I was attacked by an anti-EU chap on the tube. I’ve been
A disabled parent has accused his local authority of discriminating against him by refusing to take his access needs
Continue readingSchool admissions process ‘discriminates against disabled parents’
A string of user-led organisations have warned that the government’s “horrifying” plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace
Continue readingOutrage over ‘horrifying’ and ‘miserable’ plans to scrap Human Rights Act
‘I, Daniel Blake’ moved Cannes audiences to tears and is greeted with shouts of ‘BRAVO!’ Black Triangle Campaign is in
Continue readingLoach film on shame of poverty in Britain moves Cannes to tears
By John Pring Disability News Service Saturday 14th May 2016 After 21 months of smokescreens, excuses, obstruction and secrecy, work
Two disabled peers have criticised ministers for refusing to collect figures that would demonstrate the impact of a key element
Continue readingIt is ‘not value-for-money’ to collect vital PIP stats on 20-metre rule, says DWP
A report by peers on the impact of equality legislation on disabled people appears to have secured its first success,
Continue readingWheelchair taxi rules will finally come into force… after 20 years
Hundreds of disabled people are believed to have fallen victim to a “manipulative” fraudster who posed as a lawyer to
Continue readingJailed conman who targeted disabled people ‘defrauded hundreds’
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
Study’s authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five … Continue readingUK child death rate among worst in western Europe, say experts
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting … Continue readingPersonal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
Don’t let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man’s true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net … Continue readingMAKE NO MISTAKE: Iain Duncan Smith wants the end of social security
We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies … Continue readingAt last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies