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New code could ease bus travel for scooter-users… but not in London
Campaigners have welcomed new rules that should make it easier for some mobility scooter-users to travel on buses. The code of practice, drawn up by the industry body the Confederation…
DaDaFest 2012 will look to global talent
The world’s biggest disability and deaf arts festival is to link up next year with the cultural celebrations around the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. DaDaFest, the International Festival of Disability…
Figures raise fresh concerns over work of Atos
New research by disabled activists has produced fresh evidence of poor performance by the company paid to test disabled people’s “fitness for work”. The results come from an online survey…
Inclusion fears over SEN pilot projects
Campaigners will try to convince local authorities testing out new government policies on special educational needs (SEN) to take an inclusive approach, despite the coalition’s “hostile” stance on including disabled…
Research questions improvements to ‘fitness for work’ tests
New research has raised doubts over whether changes to the government’s “fitness for work” tests have made the assessments any fairer for disabled people. The survey of welfare advisers by…
Festival will put disability arts and rights near the centre of London 2012
Disabled people are to hold a major international disability arts festival to run in parallel with the London 2012 Paralympics. The free festival will take place in and around a…
Crown Prosecution Service to look again at abuse allegations failure
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to investigate why it refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. The decision…
Liberal Democrat conference: Disabled members help overturn welfare policy
Disabled Liberal Democrats have helped force a major change to their party’s policies on welfare reform, and the use of “fitness for work” tests to determine eligibility for out-of-work disability…
Liberal Democrat conference: New fears over care funding reform
A Liberal Democrat minister has warned that a government social care white paper due next spring may not include long-awaited measures to reform the funding of support for disabled adults…
Liberal Democrat conference: Minister holds out hope over welfare reform bill
A government minister has held out hope that some of the most unpopular measures in the welfare reform bill could be removed or eased during its progress through the House…
