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Concern over EHRC appointment delays

The government has refused to explain why it has still not appointed six new commissioners to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
The EHRC board is operating with only a skeleton number of commissioners, more than a month after it was supposed to have appointed the new board members.
Among the commissioners yet to be replaced [...]

Disabled people ‘must take the initiative’ over access to sport

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 [...]