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Campaigners are hoping that their new access initiative will encourage disabled people to spend one day exploring somewhere new. Disabled Access Day will be held for the first time on…

Transport ministers look set to drop two more rail access improvement schemes, only days after admitting they had slashed spending on their main programme by nearly 30 per cent. Campaigners…

An inclusive school sports scheme could eventually help to make disability hate crime a distant memory, according to a retired Paralympian and sports broadcaster. Kate Grey was speaking after the…

  Inclusive education 'just a lottery for disabled children', says report   The least-inclusive local authority in the country is seven times more likely to send a child to a…

The government has ignored calls to introduce tough new accessible housing standards. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced its plans this week for a "radically simplified" system…

She is the first British alpine skier ever to win a gold medal at either a Paralympic or Olympic Games, but what Kelly Gallagher really wants to do is to…

Disabled air passengers have been left with no protection from in-flight discrimination across Europe, thanks to a ruling from the UK's Supreme Court. The court ruled that international rules on…

Campaigners for inclusive education have given a mixed reaction to the coalition's Children and Families Act (CFA), which received royal assent this week. The act introduces a range of major…

People who stammer are almost certain to face discrimination in the workplace and the jobs market, new research suggests. The study by Dr Clare Butler, of Newcastle University Business School,…

The Sochi Paralympics will be "transformational" for Russia's attitudes towards disabled people, according to the British president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Sir Philip Craven was speaking as he…