A disabled woman was tackled to the floor by a security guard after she complained about not being allowed to return her new mobile phone, only minutes after signing the contract.

The woman, who has cerebral palsy and scoliosis, but has asked not to be identified, was held by the security guard on the floor of the Orange store in the south of England.

The government is to push ahead with special educational needs (SEN) reform, but has yet to say if it will follow through on threats to reduce disabled children’s rights to be educated in mainstream schools.

The coalition announced in this week’s Queen’s speech – which marks the beginning of a new parliamentary session – that it intended to introduce a new children and families bill.

Anger as council plans to push disabled people into residential care

A cost-cutting local authority is set to force more disabled people into residential care, rather than paying for them to receive support in their own homes.

Disabled bloggers have posted their views about topics as diverse as sex, special education, assistive technology and the barriers facing disabled farmers, as part of the seventh annual Blogging Against Disablism Day (BADD).

The annual event, which took place on 1 May, was the idea of the anonymous disabled activist who has been blogging at Diary of a Goldfish since 2005.

Coalition MPs have overturned changes to government legislation that would have made it easier for many disabled people to apply for legal aid.

They backed a government amendment to the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which reinstated plans for all those seeking legal aid to be forced to use a telephone helpline as their first point of contact.