Disability Horizons

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • The government has made “significant changes” to the criteria it will use to assess disabled people’s eligibility for the new personal independence payment, but early analysis of the alterations suggests [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • The panel set up to review a vital piece of equality legislation has been packed with Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians, adding to fears of a new government assault on [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Newspapers should be forced to apologise, print corrections, or even face heavy fines if they print misleading or offensive articles about disabled people and other minority groups, according to Lord [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Leading disability rights figures have warned that key parts of the country’s equality legislation are under threat from the government, after the prime minister announced that he was “calling time [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • A judge has been criticised for his “appalling” failure to treat the “degrading, cruel and inhuman” abuse of people with learning difficulties at a hospital as a disability hate crime. [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Three more charities have suggested that Atos Healthcare used misleading claims about them in a document it used to win two lucrative disability assessment contracts. • A review of the [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Labour has called for an “immediate investigation” after evidence emerged that Atos Healthcare won two lucrative disability assessment contracts by using “misleading” information about its links with disabled people’s organisations. [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Activists in Nepal are calling for a full investigation into the death of a disabled member of the Nepal National Paralympic Committee (NPC), whose body was found hanging inside the [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • A disabled activist set to fight next month’s by-election in Corby has become the first candidate to be backed by a new political movement that wants to see non-career politicians [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • The government’s choice to be the new chair of the equality watchdog faces a tough task to repair an organisation that is damaged almost beyond repair, according to the former [...]