Disability News Service - Week ending 18 September 2015
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Disability News Service - Week ending 18 September 2015
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A coroner has demanded that the government takes action to prevent future deaths of disability benefit claimants, after concluding in a “ground-breaking” inquest
verdict that a disabled man killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”.
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Disabled activists have greeted the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the Labour party’s new leader with huge optimism, and as an opportunity to fight back against government
austerity.
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Disabled activists have expressed elation and relief at the overwhelming defeat of an assisted suicide bill in the House of Commons, but fear that another attempt
to change the law may not be far away.
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A disabled teenager killed himself on the same day that pay-day loans company Wonga cleared out his bank account, leaving him without a single penny to survive on.
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A new £5 million initiative – believed to be the world’s first major research programme led by disabled people – is set to fund 40 projects that aim to find solutions
to barriers to independent living across the UK.
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Deaf campaigners have hailed new legislation as an “historic landmark” that will give important new rights to users of British Sign Language (BSL) in Scotland.
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Disabled people in Wales are calling on the next Welsh government to introduce a legal right to independent living, as one of five major “calls to action” in a new
manifesto.
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The equality watchdog has called on the government to do more to boost the number of disabled people involved in politics.
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Members of
a House of Lords committee examining the impact of the Equality Act 2010 have visited a user-led organisation to hear from disabled people on how the legislation has affected their day-to-day lives.
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Football’s Premier League clubs have agreed to transform access at their grounds, following a 14-year campaign by disabled supporters.
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A disabled university lecturer was forced to live in a residential home for older people for seven months because of a crisis in accessible housing that is “spiralling
out of control”, according to a new report.
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