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. A councillor who won re-election despite having to apologise for suggesting disabled children should be “put down” to save money has told Disability News Service he believes there is a good [...]

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 former prisoner is suing the government for hundreds of thousands of pounds for what he says was the failure of five different prisons to provide him with 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 peer who defeated government plans to restrict the remit of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has praised the support she received from across the equality and human [...]

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. • Disabled adults who used an NHS day centre were stabbed with needles, punched, slapped, locked in cupboards, and even used for target practice by care staff, a court has heard. [...]

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 man has won compensation from the government’s “fitness for work” contractor Atos Healthcare because of the weeks of distress, pain and fatigue he suffered after being forced to [...]

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 minister for disabled people has again been accused of using misleading government statistics to “stoke up antagonism” towards disabled benefit claimants. • The government has been criticised for cutting [...]

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. • Disabled people who are set to be hit by the government’s controversial “bedroom tax” have won the right to an urgent judicial review of the new rules. • Disabled people [...]

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. • Doubts have emerged over whether the coalition will offer enough funding to provide anything more than a “safety net” to former users of the Independent Living Fund after it closes, following [...]

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 appears to have a secret plan to reassess disability living allowance claimants who have “indefinite” awards, in a bid to sidestep delays to implementation of its benefit reforms. [...]

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 again been accused of sending out misleading and confusing information about its disability living allowance cuts and reforms, after a senior civil servant apparently contradicted the minister [...]