Lib Dems demand emergency summit on Motability crisis
Liberal Democrats are to calling on the Government to hold an emergency summit with key disability groups into the growing crisis with PIP reassessments and Motability.
12 May 2016
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Dyspraxia – Everyone’s Different!
It's been a while since I put my mind to a blog, but Rosie has been asking me to do one for a while, so here goes! As Rosie's blog has hit a major milestone of 100,000 visitors, I think now is a good as time as ever to go back to basics.
11 May 2016
BBC documentary Redefining Juliet to give Shakespeare role to disabled actors
A documentary going behind the scenes of a Romeo and Juliet production featuring six Juliets with disabilities or differences will be broadcast on BBC4.
11 May 2016
More knowledge is needed on self-directed social care for disabled people from the LGBT community.
New study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Social Care Research seeks to understand more about the challenges faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) disabled community.
11 May 2016
Me and my MS
Poppy Hasted was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1985 at the age of 24. She had just started her first job after graduating from Liverpool Polytechnic with a degree in librarianship and information science.
11 May 2016
We oppose the Hendy review proposals to defer 50% of vital Access for All rail projects
Following the proposals on Access for All detailed in the Hendy Review, Transport for All, together with Inclusion London, Disabled People against Cuts, Disability Rights UK, RNIB, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign UK and Campaign for Better Transport wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport. The "Replanning Network Rail's investment programme" report from Sir Peter Hendy to the Transport Secretary recommends to defer 50% of vital Access for All projects to 2019-24. [Source: Transport for All website] Dear Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State for Transport, R.E: Proposals by the Hendy Review to defer 50% of Access for All projects until the next rail Control Period (2019-24) Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the accessibility of the UK's Rail network still has a long way to go. We are therefore writing to express our dismay at the proposed recommendations by the Hendy review into Network Rail to defer 50% of vital Access for All projects to 2019-24. Over twenty years have passed
11 May 2016