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Activists ‘terrified’ as MPs debate legalising assisted suicide while government proposes PIP cuts...
3+ day, 1+ hour ago —...That momentum includes the announcement by Labour leader Keir Starmer... ...By John Pring on 2nd May 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning... ...Carr told Disability News Service (DNS) she was terrified by the... ...Andy Greene, a member of DPAC’s national steering group, said the...
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Watchdog backs government over secret assessment of ticket office closures
1+ week, 3+ day ago —...Disability News Service (DNS) wrote to the Department for Transport... ...By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Transport The information... ...of the Campaign for Level Boarding, has written to John Larkinson... ...commissioner ORR Tony Jennings Transport for All Seven years on...
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Activists’ shock as Scope ‘sacrifices integrity’ to partner with ‘hostile’ Daily Express
1+ week, 3+ day ago —...The Daily Express is the official partner for Scope’s second Disability... ...By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning... ...Accessibility consultant Julia Peyser Gutiérrez Anstey was also critical... ...Daily Express Disablism equality Scope transphobia Yen Godden...
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Black disabled pupils face systemic barriers and injustice at school, says new report
1+ week, 3+ day ago —...country's only news agency specialising in disability issues By John Pring... ...disabled pupils was kept locked and could only be accessed by a teacher... ...Michelle Daley, ALLFIE’s director and one of the report’s co-authors... ...Dr Navin Kikabhai, ALLFIE’s chair, said the research could be “a...
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UN’s ‘damning verdict’ is ‘vindication’ of fightback against government’s rights violations...
1+ week, 3+ day ago —...Ellen Clifford, who has been coordinating work by the coalition of... ...By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Human Rights Disabled... ...Rhian Davies, chief executive of Disability Wales, welcomed the committee... ...Svetlana Kotova, director of campaigns and justice for Inclusion...
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Reforms to disabled students’ support ‘will confuse and dilute our rights’
2+ week, 3+ day ago —...country's only news agency specialising in disability issues By John Pring... ...on 18th April 2024 Category: Education The government is threatening... ...Mette Anwar-Westander, chief executive of Disabled Students UK (DSUK... ...UK DSA Higher education non-medical help Student Loans Company universities...
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‘Dangerous’ rollout of universal credit ‘poses threat’ to disabled claimants
2+ week, 3+ day ago —...By John Pring on 18th April 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty The... ...the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues... ...Mikey Erhardt, policy and campaigns officer at Disability Rights... ...Disabled activist Gail Ward, a long-standing member of grassroots...
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This is an existential crisis for disabled people, says campaigner after climate change court win
2+ week, 3+ day ago —...Doug Paulley (pictured) is one of two individual claimants who have... ...the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues... ...change Climate Change Committee climate crisis Doug Paulley Friends... ...of the Earth global warming judicial review National Adaptation...
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Spring tour for austerity installation on DWP deaths that was inspired by war photographers
2+ week, 3+ day ago —...spring tour this week at Live Theatre, Newcastle (pictured), before... ...By John Pring on 18th April 2024 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport... ...Museum of Austerity is at Live Theatre, Newcastle, from 17 April... ...English Touring Theatre mixed reality Museum of Austerity National...
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Met took formal action on just nine disability hate crimes in 2023, hustings is told
3+ week, 2+ day ago —...Although 600 disability hate crimes were recorded by the Metropolitan... ...on 11th April 2024 Category: Crime Only nine disability hate crimes... ...Blackie Sadiq Khan Susan Hall Zoë Garbett Trio of mayoral candidates... ...London mayoral election Metropolitan Police Service Real DPO Rob...