Archive: Disability

Comment: Time to stamp out disability hate crime for good

Dan Scorer: 'Until prejudice such as this is eradicated, people with a learning disability will continue to be failed by the system and denied justice.'

A new report has shown disability hate crime goes largely unreported. While some progress is being made, there is still a lot to be done to eliminate this problem entirely.

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Councillor quits after 'disabled kids should be put down' remark

Brewer's remark was condemned as 'outrageous' by disabled charity Scope

Cornwall county councillor finally bows to public pressure after saying disabled children should be 'put down'.

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Comment: Stammering MPs are better than glib ones

Speech impediments should not be the butt of jokes

Ed Balls' stammer shouldn't be mocked. We have blind MPs and MPs in wheelchairs, but one would be hard put to find incidences when their disability become a subject of mirth for political opponents.

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Govt sneaks out disability redundancy news

The Remploy closures show the entire programme is being winded down by ministers.

The government sneaked out news of further redundancies at Remploy factories today, using a ministerial statement to announce 682 disabled workers' jobs were at risk.

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Third of incapacity benefit claimants judged fit to work

More people are being deemed fit to work

Over a third of all those assessed for incapacity benefits between December last year and February this year were fit for work, according to government figures.

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Lib Dem diary: Clegg finishes badly at Scalextric

Clegg doesn't come out too badly from the Top Gear game

His personal popularity may be taking a bit of a battering in the polls - but Nick Clegg pulled the crowds in at the Liberal Democrat exhibition centre today during his tour of the stands.

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Comment: Paralympic support is a figleaf for cuts

Debbie Jolly: 'The WAC is a system designed to remove over a million disabled people from welfare support that has caused misery, anxiety and the premature deaths and suicides of an estimated 32 people a week.'

While the government praises paralympians for their 'can do' attitude, it is busy withdrawing all the support that helped them become sporting heroes in the first place.

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UK's first disability minister dies days before Paralympics

Alf Morris has died aged 84

Britain's first disability minister has died days before the opening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

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Comment: Names will never hurt me?

Mark Gale is disability charity Mencap's campaigns and policy officer

Ricky Gervais has unwittingly endorsed negative assumptions about disabled people.

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Comment: Govt's welfare reform bill trick stinks of injustice

Kaliya Franklin is an experienced disability rights writer, blogger, campaigner and founder of The Broken of Britain a non partisan campaign against the welfare cuts.

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point – isn't that worth proper scrutiny?

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Officer faces disciplinary action after dragging disabled protestor

Police stand guard during the student protests last December

A disabled protestor who was dragged out his wheelchair by police and hit with a baton has partially won his appeal.

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Tory MPs in disability pay row

Would low pay give disabled people a foot in the door?

A proposal by Tory backbenchers to let disabled people opt out of the minimum wage to find work has been dismissed as "preposterous".

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