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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has published three reports presenting the findings from qualitative research to evaluate the Government’s Access to Work scheme. Access to Work provides advice…

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its Single Equality Scheme. This covers services to the public as well as its obligations as an employer. The Single Equality Scheme cites…

Andy Burnham, Health Secretary introduced the Personal Care at Home Bill in Parliament in December 2009. The Bill aims to guarantee free personal care for 280,000 people and to help…

A formal investigation by The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to be launched into disability-related harassment and the measures public authorities are taking to prevent violence and abuse…

The Disabled Persons’ Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009, was designed to prevent unauthorised people parking in designated accessible parking spaces. The aim of the Act is to give greater powers…

Government proposals to remove funding from organisations that provide expert legal support for discrimination cases will have a “catastrophic” impact on disabled people, experts have warned. The Government Equalities Office…

A government-backed report is set to make it harder for disabled people to claim out-of-work disability benefits, while potentially delivering another lucrative assessment contract to the private sector. The authors…

The appointment of two disabled artists to direct next year’s opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics creates a “fantastic opportunity” to showcase disability arts on a world stage, say…

A new bill that would put right “one of the most fundamental wrongs in the social care system” has been introduced by a disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell’s social care…

Members of the European disability movement have called for new laws to guarantee freedom of movement for disabled people across the Europe Union (EU). They were speaking at the 15th…