Disabled people need to take the initiative and demand more accessible local sports facilities, a conference has heard.
Stewart Lucas, chief executive of Interactive, which works to increase the number of disabled people taking part in sport and physical activity in London, said that disabled people needed to decide for themselves that they wanted to become [...]
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A new report is the first to demonstrate the likely devastating impact on disabled people’s lives of the government’s cuts to disability benefits, say campaigners.
The report, The Tipping Point, warns that the cuts could tip disabled people into “poverty, debt and isolation”.
A survey of more than 3,500 people for the report found that 85 per [...]