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A disabled campaigner is one of five blind and visually-impaired people taking pioneering legal action against their local councils over the failure to make voting in elections accessible to them.…

The private sector has implemented the Equality Act far better than central and local government, a committee of peers has been told by a prominent disabled campaigner. The peers were…

Three disabled peers have asked a panel of senior civil servants why the government appears to have failed to enforce the Equality Act since it became law five years ago.…

A disabled campaigner who is battling to protect the rights of wheelchair-users to travel on buses has won permission for his appeal to be heard by the Supreme Court. Doug…

A month-long season of BBC films examining the lives of young disabled people will feature issues such as parenting, hate crime, relationships, and the qualities required of personal assistants. BBC…

A disabled teacher claims she was left with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by a three-year campaign of discrimination and harassment at the school where she worked. After the teacher first…

The minister for disabled people has risked ridicule after announcing that Swansea has become the country’s first “Disability Confident City”, despite being unable to explain why it was chosen. The…

Disabled people should accept the “badge of disability” in order to increase their profile as consumers and help drive down the extra costs they face, according to a new report.…

The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £880,000 to a three-year project that will uncover disabled people’s history, through examination of eight unique buildings across England. Accentuate’s History of Place…

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded more than £850,000 to a project that will create a digital archive of the 40-year history of the disability arts movement. The Shape…