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WEB19th September 2024. One of parliament’s new disabled MPs has suggested that the government should consider criminalising disability discrimination, because of the difficulty disabled people face in enforcing the Equality Act. Liberal Democrat Steve Darling was speaking to Disability News Service (DNS) at his party’s […]
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WEBBy John Pring on 19th September 2024 Category: Politics. Listen. One of parliament’s new disabled MPs has suggested that the government should consider criminalising disability discrimination, because of the difficulty disabled people face in enforcing the Equality Act. Liberal Democrat Steve Darling was speaking to Disability News Service ...
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WEBDisability News Service (DNS) is run by John Pring, a disabled journalist who has been reporting on disability issues for nearly 25 years. He launched DNS in April 2009 to address the absence of in-depth reporting in both the specialist and mainstream media on issues that affect the lives of disabled people. The news service focuses on issues ...
Evidence mounts of disability benefits white paper’s fatal flaws
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Evidence is mounting that government plans to reform the disability benefits system are fatally flawed. Last week’s Transforming Support white paper appears to be slowly unravelling, with a growing number of serious concerns being raised by disabled activists, politicians, charities and the main union representing Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff.
‘Heartless’ reforms to disability benefits ‘defy logic’
WEBSep 19, 2024 · By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty. Listen. “Heartless” government reforms that will eventually scrap the “fitness for work” assessment “defy logic” and pose significant risks to sick and disabled people who cannot work, say activists who have fought for years to highlight the test’s fatal flaws.
DWP figures show 600,000 could be missing out on disability …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty. More than 600,000 disabled people could be missing out on thousands of pounds a year of disability benefits they are entitled to, according to new figures released by the minister for disabled people. They show that 632,000 people are …
Government and NHS discrimination linked to COVID deaths of …
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Discrimination by the government as it responded to the pandemic, and within the NHS, could be to blame for disabled people’s sharply-increased risk of dying from COVID-19, according to researchers backed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country
WEBSep 19, 2024 · Listen. A disabled people’s organisation is hoping its new disability justice project will draw support from across the country and create change in both government policy and public attitudes, as well as addressing the sense of “inevitability” around disability poverty. One of Inclusion Barnet’s early targets will be to persuade the ...
DWP minister dodges question on Kendall’s ‘exclusionary’ decision …
WEB1 day ago · A minister has failed to explain why his boss set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single representative of a disabled people’s organisation (DPO). Sir Stephen Timms was asked about the decision of his boss, Liz Kendall, not to include any experts ...
Streeting dodges care charges question for four minutes and 25 …
WEB1 day ago · Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has refused to say when the new Labour government will address the care charging crisis that is leading disabled people to face unlawful discrimination and inequality on an “unparalleled” scale. Despite being asked several times by Disability News Service (DNS) when the government would act to ...