Tag Archives: disabled people
Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community & disability movement
Disability News service blog post by John Pring,2018: Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement A disabled researcher has suggested a way to bring the hundreds of thousands of people with chronic illness under the umbrella … Continue reading
Welsh government consultation on free bus travel for older & disabled people
Welsh Government consultation: Mandatory concessionary fares scheme in Wales Summary: We are seeking views on free bus travel for older people, disabled people and injured service veterans in Wales. Consultation End Date: 12 January 2018 Consultation description: We are consulting … Continue reading
Petition to force action on the UNCRPD report citing violations of disabled rights
UK Government & Parliament Petition: Force the government to act on the eleven recommendations of the UNCRPD report As a result of being investigated by a United Nations committee for not fulfilling the terms of the UNCRPD, the government have … Continue reading
PIP claimants will not be spared retests, DWP admits
Disability news service blog post by John Pring, October 6, 2016: Tory conference: PIP claimants will not be spared retests, DWP admits The government has confirmed that sick and disabled people who will soon be spared reassessments for out-of-work benefits … Continue reading
WCA tests “significantly” biased against poorer disabled people
Disability Rights UK blog post, 10 August 2016: WCA tests “significantly” biased against poorer disabled people ESA work capability assessment (WCA) tests are “significantly biased” against claimants in poor areas of the country, according to new research. The Guardian today … Continue reading
See around Britain: phone app to help disabled people & visitors plan trips
BBC Wales news story: See Around Britain app to help disabled people plan trips, 1 August 2016 A phone app to help disabled people and visitors plan trips will be launched in Cardiff on Monday. See Around Britain includes more … Continue reading
Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights
Disability Wales blog post, 26 July 2016: Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights In 2017 the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be examining the UK’s compliance with … Continue reading
How would Brexit affect disabled people?
Brexit ‘would have dire consequences for disabled people’ by Raya Al Jadir and John Pring, in Disability News Service, 10 March 2016 Leaving the European Union (EU) would have “harmful” and “dire” consequences for disabled people, according to two of … Continue reading
Disabled people to lose £68 a week in housing benefit
National housing Federation press release, 26 January: Older people, disabled people and most vulnerable to lose £68 a week in housing benefit Planned changes to housing benefit could leave vast numbers of the country’s most vulnerable people unable to afford … Continue reading
Government cuts will make it harder for disabled people to find work
Huffington post article, 8 Dec 2015: Government plans to cut unemployment benefits for disabled people will make it harder, not easier, for them to get back into work, according to a House of Lords report. The Employment and Support Allowance … Continue reading