Daily Archives: 02/06/2012

Miller accused of fiddling with her disability strategy ‘while Rome burns’

The minister for disabled people has been accused of delaying action to support disabled people while “Rome is burning” because of her government’s reforms.
Maria Miller was answering questions about progress on her delayed disability strategy at a packed meeting of the all-party parliamentary disability group and several other disability-related all-party groups.
Two weeks ago, Disability News [...]

Nine speak out to back ‘contract for the future’

Nine leading disabled activists have backed a new “contract for the future”, which lays out the 15 changes that need to be made to improve the lives of people with learning difficulties.
The nine leaders, who all have learning difficulties, spoke out to support the new Agreeing Together document, which was put together by members of [...]