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Disabled workers could be owed thousands by cheating bosses
November 1, 2013
Ian Streets
Disabled workers are being encouraged by the government to check that their employers have not been cheating them out of thousands of pounds. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills…
Read moreShape’s £1.5 million grant ‘is huge boost for disabled artists’
November 1, 2013
Ian Streets
A leading disability arts organisation has secured £1.5 million of lottery funding to develop a programme of "ambitious and high quality work" by disabled artists over the next three years.…
Read moreCouncil Crackdown on Blue Badge Cheats
October 28, 2013
Ian Streets
Hull City Council has sent a warning to people who abuse disabled parking concessions. The Council announced a crackdown on abuse of the Blue Badge scheme earlier in the…
Read moreUser-led charity wins prime minister’s award
October 24, 2013
Ian Streets
A user-led organisation is the latest charity to win the prime minister’s Big Society Award, after being praised for its contribution to the community. Oxford-based My Life My Choice (MLMC)…
Read moreAccess experts raise concerns over housing standards review
October 24, 2013
Ian Streets
Access and housing experts have warned that draft government plans for new housing standards do not do enough to prioritise the building of accessible homes. They spoke out as the…
Read moreBroadcasters must measure quality of subtitles, says Ofcom
October 17, 2013
Ian Streets
Broadcasters will have to measure the quality of the subtitles they provide on live television programmes, the broadcasting watchdog has announced. Deaf campaigners welcomed the decision by Ofcom, but said…
Read moreThe disability charity Scope is to “put its money where its mouth is”
October 11, 2013
Ian Streets
The disability charity Scope is to “put its money where its mouth is” by closing a third of its remaining residential homes over the next three years. The plans to…
Read moreNo room for disabled people among 21 Paralympic ‘team leaders’
October 11, 2013
Ian Streets
There is not one disabled person among the “team leaders” who are heading the high-level preparations of 21 Paralympic sports in the lead-up to Rio 2016, the British Paralympic Association…
Read moreUniversities ‘still failing disabled students’
October 4, 2013
Ian Streets
Universities are still putting significant barriers before disabled students and failing to provide them with the support they need on campus, according to new research carried out by young campaigners.…
Read moreMPs warn government over ‘unacceptably poor’ access to transport
September 19, 2013
Ian Streets
MPs have warned the government that it must do much more to improve access to transport for disabled people, which they say is “unacceptably poor”. The Commons transport committee this…
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