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A cross-party, user-led campaign aims to boost disabled people’s participation in politics in Scotland, and could soon be doing the same across the UK. The One in Five campaign was…

A disabled student has been kicked off her degree after her first year – leaving her with student loan debts of more than £17,000 – after her university refused to…

Four of the best-known business brands in Britain have refused to criticise the Premier League for its “glacial” slowness in improving access to football grounds, despite concerns raised by a…

A disabled peer is to write to broadcasters and sponsors of football’s Premier League to suggest they should withdraw their support if clubs do not do more to improve access…

The equality watchdog has been forced by a committee of peers to defend its performance on ensuring that disabled people are protected by the Equality Act. Three senior figures from…

A disabled peer has appealed for more than 10,000 people to put their names to a new campaigning charter, in order to pressure health bosses and politicians into improving England’s…

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…