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Motion to discuss the 20m PIP moving around category

The following is scheduled as a motion for debate in the Lords. Baroness Thomas of Winchester to move to resolve that this House calls on Her Majesty's Government to hold urgent talks with Disability Rights UK and the Disability Benefits Consortium to identify a mobility criterion in the Personal Independence Payment "moving around" assessment which is fairer than the current 20 metre distance, in the light of the impact on reassessed disabled claimants and the resulting large number of successful appeals. - See more at: http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2016/april/motion-discuss-20m-pip-moving-around-category#sthash.4w6SbVKk.dpuf

Blind woman desperate to work ordered out of Milton Keynes Jobcentre because of guide dog

Man with epilepsy denied access to disabled toilet in Burger King because he is 'lazy'

ay Bryan, 27, felt the aura of a seizure coming on while shopping on Saturday and asked to use the disabled toilet of Burger King in Gloucester. He was told by a member of staff that it was for disabled people.

Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland has welcomed news that the Translarna drug has now been signed off by England's drugs approval body NICE.

Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland has welcomed news that the Translarna drug has now been signed off by England's drugs approval body NICE.

Dyslexic pupils not helped by reading method

Up to 400,000 dyslexic children may be hampered in learning to read by the Government's insistence on the use of synthetic phonics to teach them, says a report to be published today.

Disability Assessors must be properly trained says BPS

Following the airing of Channel 4's Dispatches programme The Great Benefits Row on Monday 11 April 2016, the BPS is extremely concerned about the appropriateness of the training, behaviour and outcome goals of some disability assessors employed by Capita as depicted on the programme.