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An award-winning documentary has highlighted the need for a more flexible employment market and a more inclusive society, according to disabled campaigners who attended a screening of the film by…

A disabled peer is fighting to prevent the government overturning a key piece of human rights protection for disabled and older people in private sector and charity-run residential homes. Last…

A new website aims to help deaf people find electricians, plumbers and decorators who are able to communicate with them. The DeafProSussex website has been launched by the Deaf Cultural…

Five disabled writers have won the chance to work with three of the UK's best-known theatre venues. The writers have been selected by the disabled-led theatre company Graeae to create…

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…

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.…

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…

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)…

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…

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…