Vital letters that tell disabled people they have to transfer to the government’s new disability benefit are being lost in the system, leading to them losing financial support for months on end, according to a whistleblower. Rebecca*, who has asked to remain anonymous, works for Serco, the company paid by the Department for Work and […]
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Multi-million pound disability research programme seek proposals
Press Release: The UK-wide Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning (DRILL) Programme invites research teams led by disabled people to respond to its first call for proposals. DRILL is a partnership of 4 national disabled people’s organisations across the UK, including Disability Wales. Funded by a £5 million grant from the Big Lottery […]
Wales election: Jeremy Corbyn campaign visit cancelled
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled an assembly election campaign visit to Wales amid fears it would be overshadowed by an anti-Semitism row. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended for his comments saying Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism. A source close to Mr Corbyn said a “high level of media interest” would have […]
Wales Election 2016: Manifestos at a glance
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cynhadledd y Gyfnewidfa Cydraddoldeb a Hawliau Dynol 9 Mehefin, 2016
Gweithlu i’r dyfodol – heriau a chyfleoedd Cynhadledd y Gyfnewidfa Cydraddoldeb a Hawliau Dynol 9 Mehefin, 2016, Llandrindod Prif Siaradwyr: David Robinson OBE, Cadeirydd y Tasglu Cenedlaethol dros Weithredu’n Gynnar ac Uwch Gynghorydd i Community Links. Karyn McClusky, Cyfarwyddwr Uned Cyfyngu Trais yr Alban. Alison Phillips, Prif Weithredwr Comisiwn Staff Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus. Stori ddigidol […]
