Still confused about who to vote for in the Welsh Assembly election? There is just over a week to go before polls open across Wales. All of the parties have published their manifestos – plans for what they’d do if they took control of the Senedd, or even suggesting what they might like to get […]
Author: Rhyan Berrigan
Disabled Access Day sees venue numbers quadruple
More than 1,000 venues and an estimated 10,000 people took part in the second annual Disabled Access Day, according to a new report. The figures show that last month’s event, which saw eight countries taking part, attracted 10 times the number of people who took part in the inaugural event in 2015, with four times […]
Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics
Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled people over the last 15 years, according to three of the country’s leading academics working in the disability rights field. In the strongest statement yet on why remaining in the EU would be the right […]
DWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking they have no right of appeal if they miss the deadline for applying for the new personal independence payment (PIP). There are also claims that it is failing to make it clear enough to existing disability […]
‘Enforcement is key on Equality Act’
Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights to equality, six years after the introduction of the Equality Act. They were speaking at a seminar in London – organised by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, the legal firm Unity […]
‘Conflict of interest’ lawyer to chair EHRC, as minister ignores MPs’ concerns
The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns about a potential conflict of interest caused by his firm’s work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Government Equalities Office (GEO) announced this week that David Isaac had been chosen to be […]
Government set to slash equality watchdog’s budget… again
The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year has already started. The planned cuts only emerged after the Government Equalities Office (GEO) told Disability News Service (DNS) that it was still “in the process of agreeing budgets” with the Equality and Human Rights […]
Leonard Cheshire set to scrap disabled-only team over budget black hole
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its care homes, in a bid to cope with a budgetary black hole. Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) has told its award-winning, 14-strong customer support team (CST) that they are all facing possible redundancy, in a bid […]
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people in ‘destitution’, research suggests
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty in the UK suggests. The study, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, found that in 2015 there were 1.25 million people in the UK who were defined at some point as destitute because they could […]
Learning Disability Wales Annual Conference – community inclusion.
Learning Disability Wales – Annual Conference. “I belong” will look at how children, young people and adults are included in their communities, what they can give to their communities and how they benefit from inclusion. It could include: Community presence Citizenship Visibility in their community Nothing about us without us Access to community resources […]
