Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is
Continue readingUser-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the
Continue readingMental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of
Continue readingCampaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability
Continue readingMother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme
Continue readingRedundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over
Continue readingGovernment faces legal action over election access fund
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version
Continue readingIsle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging
Continue readingNetwork neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
Continue readingTo live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if
Continue readingEquality watchdog calls for court action over BA’s PA ticket ‘discrimination’
By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears
Continue readingAdmission by aviation regulator is latest step in assistance dogs aircraft battle
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited
Continue readingEight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13
Continue readingNHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work
Continue readingAccess to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made
Continue readingGovernment rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for
Continue readingAnger over Royal Society’s ‘love fest for euthanasia’ conference
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach
Continue readingLegal advice concerns after government abandons search for new contractors
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the
Continue readingDeaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability
Continue readingMotability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to
Continue readingWatchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors