Award-winning British Paralympic athelete, Anne Wafula Strike has criticised CrossCountry train services. She says the company left her ‘profoundly humiliated’ by failing to provide a working disabled toilet on its service.
It’s a matter of basic human dignity, but for a quarter of a million disabled people, finding appropriate places to go to the loo is often an undignified struggle. We’ve already reported on the lack of proper facilities in public places around the country. Tonight, in the latest in our No Go Britain series, we…
Richard Shakespeare, a disability consultant, and Heidi Allen, chair of the all- party parliamentary group for young disabled people.
While 80 per cent of the general population is in work, that figure is just 48 per cent for disabled people. But if you have a disability and are looking for work, finding an employer willing to give you a chance is easier said than done.
A keen amateur dancer is taking legal action, after he was banned from an event and told his wheelchair would damage the dance floor.
We know some disabled people are angry about changes to the benefits system. What are the facts?
George Osborne insists the government is increasing the money it spends on disabled people, even as he is criticised for the latest cut. Who’s right?
Alex Thomson
First off let me preface this by declaring an interest – I am the father of an autistic boy. Last night I was ringside for a performance of “Bull” at London’s Young Vic theatre. Literally so, since the set is a boxing ring. Aptly enough for a 50-odd minute tight, taut, vicious, nasty and bleak…
Jackie Long
This piece is not news. It’s not new. The Department for Work and Pensions told me. Four or five times. But I thought it was worth marking anyway.
Jackie Long
If the government’s “welfare revolution” is to work , then it has to work in places like Torfaen, a south Wales community where direct payments are being trialled.
Jackie Long
Atos is to pull out of a contract to carry out fit-to-work tests early, and will pay a financial settlement as a result. But the company clearly feels it is not the only guilty party.
Jackie Long
Councils are more likely to give discretionary housing payments to those without disabilities than those who are disabled. Jackie Long reports on how the ‘bedroom tax’ is affecting disabled people.
The latest figures from the Work Programme have been hailed as a success by the government – and a resounding failure by Labour and the unions. FactCheck cuts through the spin.
Can a wheelchair really jump a 50ft ramp just like a BMX? It’s a question few would have bothered pondering a few months ago. Well, yes it can.
Extreme skier Josh Dueck is the man behind the first ever wheelchair ski backflip. And his film The Freedom Chair is changing the face of the sport.