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
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
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’
Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they
Continue readingDelayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’
One of the two prospective candidates to challenge UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused over his record
Continue readingOwen Smith challenged over disability record
UN experts have expressed serious concerns about the impact of government austerity on the rights of disabled people and other
Continue readingUN report raises ‘deep concerns’ about impact of austerity on disabled people
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
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
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
This morning I was attacked by an anti-EU chap on the tube. I’ve been
Arts leaders must do more to tackle the “acute” lack of opportunities for disabled actors on stage and screen, according
Four-fifths of disabled teachers face harassment and discrimination at the hands of head teachers and other senior managers, disabled
Continue readingTUC Disabled Workers Conference: ‘Most disabled teachers face harassment’
Ministers have refused to say if they implemented 10 measures – recommended by their own civil servants – that would
Continue readingMinisters refuse to say if they implemented 10 measures to save lives
Updated from: http://loopys-rollingwiththepunches.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/iain-duncan-smith-legacy.html The following is a list of policies and damning court decisions and findings undertaken under
‘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 Patrick Butler and John Pring ‘Peer reviews’ challenge claims by ministers that there is no connection between welfare reform
Continue readingSuicides of benefit claimants reveal DWP flaws, says inquiry
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely
Continue readingThe increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
The new chair of the equality watchdog has taken up his new post, despite question-marks over potential conflicts of interest
Continue readingIsaac takes EHRC chair, despite concerns over DWP ‘outsourcing’ work