Daily Archives: 21/01/2012

Responsible Reform: Frustration after media snubs ground-breaking report

Disabled activists who spent months preparing a hard-hitting report that reveals how the government misled parliament over its disability living allowance (DLA) reforms say they are mystified and frustrated by the media’s failure to cover the story.
Despite huge interest in the Responsible Reform report across social media – with the report “trending” on Twitter at [...]

Disability charities evade questions over support for assisted suicide

Organisations providing services to disabled people – including disability charities and a hospice – have evaded questions about their links with a commission that has called for assisted suicide to be legalised.
The Commission on Assisted Dying concluded last week that assisted suicide could “safely” be offered to people who are terminally-ill, if they are believed [...]