A disabled access expert has questioned why 10 Downing Street – which has one of the most iconically-inaccessible front doors on the planet – has been presented with a high-profile access award.
Images of the front entrance to the prime minister’s home and offices – with its two steps to the front door – are shown every day all over the world.
From Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance:
Independent Living Campaigns Conference
Idea is to explore many current problems with adult social care, look at alternative models and explore our vision for what an independent living support system that is capable of upholding our Article 19 rights would look like and how we can fight for it.
25th November 2017
Venue: 336
336 Brixton Rd
London
SW9 7AA
From the Daily Mirror
Thousands of disabled people will be given higher benefits after winning a legal victory over the Tory government.
Ministers have been forced to rewrite Personal Independence Payment (PIP) rules following the defeat at a top-level court.
People will now get £70 to £90 a week extra backdated to the day of the Upper Tribunal, which includes a High Court judge on its panel, in March.
The government believes around 10,000 people will benefit by 2022.
Inclusion London is involved in a piece of research being carried out by a student at the University of Essex into the impact of conditionality and sanctions on Disabled people in the Employment and Support Alliance (ESA) Work Related Activity Group (WRAG). With the Government about to roll out proposals that will extend conditionality to Disabled people in the support group we think it is all the more important that research and evaluation is carried out into the impacts of this approach to welfare.
From EHRC
Could you be a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s new Disability Advisory Committee?
We are looking for a number of people with disability expertise to join the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s new Disability Advisory Committee.
Upcoming Access All Areas sessions at Z Arts
Sunday November 5th (next session -
10am – 3pm
Free Event, booking required.
This is a BSL integrated event.
From Z Arts:
Hosted by Nick Knowles, Who Dares Wins is the Saturday night quiz show where two teams of complete strangers put their general knowledge and nerve to the ultimate test. The teams battle to outbid each other on their skill and knowledge in a series of lists: who will be able to name the most films starring Bruce Willis or the most properties on a London Monopoly board? The first pair to win two lists eliminates their opponents and gets to play for up to £50,000. And it doesn't end there because on Who Dares Wins, if they keep winning, they can keep on adding to their prize fund!
The number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police rose by more than 50 per cent last year, according to new figures released by the Home Office.
The rise in recorded disability hate crimes (53 per cent) was larger than for any other strand, with race hate crimes rising by more than a quarter (27 per cent), those motivated by sexual orientation also increasing by 27 per cent, and religion-based hate crime rising by 35 per cent.
The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning UN report on her government’s disability rights record, arguing that the rest of the world should instead be learning from the UK’s policies.
Greater Manchester Law Centre is hosting a meeting at MACC, Swan Buildings (Ground floor), 20 Swan St, Manchester on Thursday 26th October from 1.30 - 4.00pm to hear evidence from people about their negative experiences of PIP and ESA assessments, especially mandatory reconsideration, to submit to the Work and Pensions Committee. Please contact Astrid Johnson at the Law Centre on 0161 769 2244 if you would like to attend.