The advertising watchdog has ruled that a TV advert that features a blind footballer accidentally kicking a cat is not offensive and does not need to be taken off air.
More than 1,000 viewers complained to the advertising watchdog about the advert for the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power – so far seen by an estimated ten [...]
More than 50 businesses in Cavan town are making real effort to improve their accessibility to customers with a disability in advance of the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in the county town next month.
A joint initiative between the Fleadh Executive Committee, local authorities, the Cavan Chamber and the business community, launched [...]
Disabled campaigners have welcomed the new commission that will examine the funding of adult care and support in England, despite concerns that the government could have already ruled out some methods of funding the system.
Paul Burstow, the Liberal Democrat care services minister, said the government was “determined to build a funding system that is fair, [...]
Disabled people should be supported to find mainstream employment rather than “special” jobs in separate, sheltered workplaces, according to a new report.
The Supporting Sustainable Careers report by RADAR suggests ten “propositions” that would make it easier for disabled people to gain decent pay, career development opportunities, status and inclusion in society, and freedom from discrimination.
It [...]
Disabled activists campaigning against the legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia are facing yet another attempt to force the government to weaken the law.
Lawyers for Tony Nicklinson, a stroke survivor with high support needs, announced this week that they want the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to issue guidelines stating when it would be in [...]
Disability charities have raised key concerns over the government’s sweeping and controversial plans to reform the NHS.
The health white paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, contains plans to give GPs more power, with groups of GP practices to be given responsibility for buying treatment from hospitals and other health providers.
Primary care trusts (PCTs) and [...]
The government is to hand responsibility for developing social care “quality standards” to the body that provides advice on drugs and other medical treatments.
The move to shift some social care responsibilities from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was contained in the health white [...]
A “damning” ombudsman’s report has found a hospital guilty of widespread failings in the care provided to a woman with learning difficulties and high support needs who died after a routine operation.
The findings of the parliamentary and health ombudsman came just weeks after the same hospital – Basildon University Hospital – was fined £50,000 over [...]
Disabled people who want to volunteer at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be able to start applying later this month – nearly two months earlier than non-disabled people.
The 2012 organising committee (LOCOG) decided to give disabled people longer to apply after taking advice from disability organisations and volunteering teams from previous games.
Disabled [...]
David Cameron’s “digital champion” has called on the government to shut down publicly-funded websites that are not accessible to disabled people.
Martha Lane Fox, who was reappointed as the UK digital champion by the prime minister last month, made the call in a new report, Manifesto for a Networked Nation.
The report is part of a campaign [...]
Disabled people are having their human rights breached because legal safeguards introduced to protect them from being wrongly deprived of their liberty have not been properly implemented, according to a new report.
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), introduced in England and Wales in April 2009, allow care homes and hospitals to obtain legal powers to [...]
A Scottish wheelchair user from Edinburgh is hoping to be the first disabled person to climb Ben Nevis without any human assistance. Sally Hyder (47), who has multiple sclerosis and relies on her assistance dog Harmony as well as her family to help with everyday tasks, is determined to complete the challenge on Sunday 29 [...]
Disabled activists have criticised plans for a new disability hate crime coalition that will be led by one of the big disability charities, with little apparent involvement from disabled people.
Plans for the coalition appeared to be in disarray after disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) questioned why it was not being led by disabled people.
Mencap had announced [...]
The government has been forced to suspend its new spending cuts website after it allowed members of the public to post offensive comments about disabled people – and then failed to remove them.
The Treasury’s Spending Challenge website received more than 15,000 suggestions about how to cut public spending in the first five days after it [...]
The government’s welfare reforms could cause it to breach its obligations to disabled people under the UN disability convention, peers have suggested.
Baroness [Jane] Campbell said the government’s disability living allowance (DLA) reforms and the closure of the Independent Living Fund to new applicants could lead to a breach of its duties under the UN Convention [...]
Disabled people and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) must do more to raise awareness of disability hate crime in their local areas, according to a new publication.
The online guide, published by the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Council (UKDPC), describes how to report a disability hate crime and where victims can find support.
It says disabled people should [...]
A leading disabled campaigner has been nominated by the UK government to join the worldwide body that monitors how countries are implementing the UN disability convention.
Diane Mulligan was put forward by Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people, as the UK candidate to join the UN expert committee on the rights of disabled people.
If she [...]
Bracknell Forest Homes has become the first housing association to partner with disability specialist DisabledGo to provide detailed access information about its sheltered and extra support housing as well as its office.
The partnership sees highly detailed accessibility information published about buildings owned and managed by the housing association. Features include information about parking facilities and [...]