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Mar 09
2012
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The government has been heavily defeated in the House of Lords over plans to remove legal aid for benefits appeals.
An amendment to the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill means legal aid will now be retained for the initial appeals of people with complex benefits problems, although the change is likely to be overturned when the bill returns to the Commons.
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Mar 09
2012
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Disabled people’s organisations have backed government plans to withdraw funding from the remaining sheltered, segregated factories run by Remploy, but have called for as many of them as possible to emerge as new user-led social enterprises.
Maria Miller, the Conservative minister for disabled people, announced this week that 36 of the remaining 54 Remploy factories across the UK would close by the end of 2012, with the loss of more than 1,500 disabled people’s jobs.
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Feb 19
2012
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New figures show the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is making good progress in prosecuting disability hate crimes successfully, say disabled activists.
Last year (2010-11), the number of successful convictions for disability hate crime-related offences rose from 483 to 579 across England and Wales.
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Feb 14
2012
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One in five disabled people’s organisations in London faces closure in the next year because of cuts to their funding, according to a new report.
Inclusion London, which carried out the survey for its A Matter of Survival report, said the threatened closures “severely undermined” government policies on disability equality, including those on independent living and direct payments.
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Feb 03
2012
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A leading MP has criticised the General Medical Council (GMC) after a GP whose negligence allowed disabled people to be raped and neglected at two residential homes removed himself from the doctors’ register.
Scores of disabled people were raped, drugged, assaulted and neglected at the notorious Longcare homes in south Buckinghamshire while Dr X* was their GP in the early 1990s.
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Jan 27
2012
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It is “entirely obvious” that the government’s welfare cuts are “falling entirely” on disabled people and families with children, according to a leading academic.
Professor Paul Gregg, an economic and social policy expert at the University of Bath, told a TUC seminar on the government’s cuts and reforms that disabled people were “very much getting the sharp end of the stick”.
Professor Gregg also dismissed government claims that welfare spending had spiralled out of control, and said that – prior to the recession – it had been growing at its slowest rate since the Second World War.
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Jan 27
2012
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Disabled activists are warning that local authorities could try to copy a council that has withdrawn funding from a direct payments support service.
Even though government guidance encourages councils to provide an independent advice and information service for users of direct payments, Hampshire County Council has stopped funding the service that had been provided by Southampton Centre for Independent Living (SCIL).
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Jan 23
2012
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Leading figures in the disability movement say they could stop cooperating with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if the government’s welfare reform bill becomes law.
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are becoming increasingly angry at the government’s failure to listen to their views, despite its frequent references to how it is “co-producing” its reforms with disabled people.
This week’s events in the House of Lords, with peers again approving plans to scrap disability living allowance (DLA) and replace it with a new personal independence payment (PIP) – despite some government concessions – have increased frustration among DPOs.
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Oct 14
2011
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Three of the country’s leading disability organisations have agreed to merge within months.
Members of the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL), RADAR and Disability Alliance (DA) backed the merger at separate annual general meetings held over the last fortnight.
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Jul 06
2011
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Hertfordshire PASS a charity based in Stevenage Hertfordshire, is looking for any young disabled people urgently aged 16 to 25 to particpate in an exciting event which will help them to understand the reality of work by using creative media. We will be inviting visitors to come share their experiences and to use your ideas creatively by using theatre, arts and crafts in the afternoons, there will be a lunch provided which you pay a small charge of £2.
The job forum will be running from next Wednesday the 13th July to the 17th August and you may come to any of the six sessions or just one or two but we may have to reduce this if we have lots of bookings.
