The government should produce new evidence that demonstrates the benefits to smaller businesses of becoming more accessible to disabled customers, according to a new report. The report by consultants Atkins was commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Office for Disability Issues, as part of efforts to produce a “legacy” [...]

The coalition government looks set to scrap its advice body on accessible transport and the Independent Living Fund (ILF) as part of its programme of spending cuts, according to a leaked government document. A leaked list of quangos set for abolition includes the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, the ILF and the Disability Employment Advisory [...]

Disabled people are providing growing evidence that councils across the country are cutting the support they need to live independently. Disability News Service has spoken to a succession of disabled people who say that their local authorities are cutting support packages. Paul Bowley, a disabled activist in Dudley, said the council had been cutting people’s [...]

Disabled activists believe they may be winning the argument against a proposed new bill that would legalise assisted suicide in Scotland. About 25 campaigners protested outside the Scottish parliament on Tuesday as a committee of MSPs heard evidence on the end of life assistance (Scotland) bill. The bill, proposed by independent MSP Margo MacDonald, would [...]

The coalition government is refusing to back proposed laws that would provide new rights for disabled bus and coach passengers across Europe. The government’s failure to back the measures has been fiercely criticised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFB UK), which described them as a “once in a generation opportunity”. [...]