Disabled peers have secured a string of key concessions from the government on its controversial disability living allowance reforms (DLA).
Members of the House of Lords this week debated amendments to the welfare reform bill on government plans to abolish DLA for working-age adults and replace it with a new personal independence payment (PIP).
Although the PIP [...]
A disabled peer has failed by just two votes to overturn plans that will see a steep cut in financial support for many families with disabled children.
Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson told peers the measure in the welfare reform bill would halve the financial support currently provided through child tax credits to most families with disabled children.
Those [...]
A disabled peer has failed to persuade the government to postpone the re-assessment of existing disability living allowance (DLA) claimants until it has piloted the new testing regime.
Baroness [Jane] Campbell called on the government to order a year-long trial of how the assessment process works for new claimants of its proposed personal independence payment (PIP) [...]
The government has agreed to reconsider a key aspect of its disability living allowance (DLA) reforms, after disabled peers said the measure could cause serious financial hardship to people who have just become disabled.
The government wants to increase from three to six months the period of time a long-term health condition or impairment must last [...]
The minister for disabled people and London’s mayor faced repeated, angry heckling from activists when they addressed a conference held to discuss disability issues in the capital.
Maria Miller and Boris Johnson were constantly interrupted in their speeches at the mayor’s annual Disability Capital event by disabled people and other campaigners angry about brutal government cuts [...]
Disabled activists were forced to threaten a peer with legal action after she attacked their campaigning efforts as “a disgrace” on a high-profile website.
Black Triangle campaigns against the unfair use of the government’s work capability assessment to reclassify disabled people as “fit for work”, and has played a major role in raising awareness of concerns [...]
Disabled peers have failed to prevent the government moving the next stage of the debate on its hugely controversial welfare reform bill to a less accessible part of the House of Lords.
The government argued that the bill’s lengthy next stage should take place in a committee room – in “grand committee” – rather than in [...]
The British head of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has defended his suggestion that the 2012 Paralympics should be used as a stepping-stone towards stopping the use of the words “disabled” and “disability”.
Sir Philip Craven, the IPC president and a former Paralympian, first made his comments earlier this week in an interview with the BBC, [...]
Disabled children are set to enjoy new sporting opportunities at school, both in inclusive versions of mainstream events and in high quality competitions against other disabled young people.
Jeremy Hunt, the secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport, announced plans this week to boost the participation of disabled children in sport.
He was speaking at [...]
Concerns have been raised over the impartiality of a commission set up to examine possible changes in the law on assisted suicide, after it emerged that at least eight of its 12 members have backed legalisation.
The commission is chaired by the former Labour minister Lord Falconer and part-funded by the author Terry Pratchett, who have [...]
DisabledGo’s Head of Business Development and Marketing, Anna Borthwick attended an important launch event in Buckinghamshire on the 21st September.
Guest of Honour, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson officially opened the newly installed lifts at Aylesbury Station before unveiling new road signs celebrating Buckinghamshire as the birthplace of the Paralympics.
The lifts at Aylesbury station, which is used by athletes [...]
The new Conservative minister for disabled people has pledged to work closely with disabled people, improve access and equality and work towards ending disability poverty.
Speaking at a meeting of the all-party parliamentary disability group, Maria Miller MP provided few new details about the coalition government’s policies around disability rights.
But Miller, appearing the day before the [...]
Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson has used her maiden speech in the House of Lords to speak of her hope that the London 20102 Olympic and Paralympic Games will lead to “significant change” and inclusion for disabled people.
The disabled peer – who won 11 Paralympic athletics gold medals – was speaking in a debate on progress towards [...]
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