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Cinema bosses grilled by Trailblazers over access
Bosses from the country’s three leading cinema chains have been given a grilling by young disabled activists over their failure to make their screens more accessible. Leading executives from Cineworld,…
Baker applauded for £40 million rail access boost
A transport minister has announced new funding of nearly £40 million to improve access to Britain’s railway stations. The funding is part of the 10-year Access for All programme launched…
Survey provides detailed picture of social barriers
The first major survey to explore the barriers that disabled people face to participating in British society has produced a detailed picture of their experiences across work, transport and education.…
Miller faces angry heckling at poverty conference
A government minister and executives from the company that carries out “fitness for work” tests on disabled people have faced angry criticism from campaigners at a national conference on disability…
Conference ‘excluded disabled people in poverty’
Organisers of a conference aimed at addressing disability poverty made it too difficult for disabled people experiencing poverty themselves to attend the event, it has been claimed. The conference was…
Hate crime linked to newspaper stories of fraud and ‘scroungers’
Disabled activists have linked the conviction of a man who called his disabled neighbour a “benefit scrounger” to hostile stories and comments that have come from the media and the…
DAN sends message to coalition: We are coming for you
The radical disabled people’s network DAN has warned the government to expect an imminent return to the kind of high-profile, non-violent, direct action protests last seen in the 1990s. The…
DPOs set to submit evidence on media hostility to Leveson Inquiry
At least three disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) plan to submit evidence to a major inquiry to draw its attention to how some newspapers are stirring up hostility towards disabled people.…
Self-advocacy campaigner takes organisation’s fight for survival to high court
A disabled activist with one of the country’s leading self-advocacy organisations has spoken of her pride in taking her council to court over its decision to remove their funding. Gina…
Progress has been made on ‘fitness for work’ test, says review
Disability organisations have welcomed the second annual review of the government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, but have warned that progress on improving the assessment has been too slow. Professor…
