For the full stories, please click on the links: A minister is to investigate why the Crown Prosecution Service has refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. A disabled man looks set to win an apology from the BBC after it admitted failing to [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links The Crown Prosecution Service is to investigate why it refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. Disabled people are to hold a major international disability arts festival to run in parallel with the London 2012 [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links Furious disabled activists are proposing a boycott of next year’s Paralympic games in London, over links between the International Paralympic Committee and the company that tests disabled people’s “fitness to work” for the government. Disabled peers have failed to prevent the government moving the next stage [...]

The Paralympic flame for next year’s games in London will be created in a ceremony in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, 2012 organisers have announced. It will be created from four separate flames lit in the capital cities of the UK – London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff – and then brought to [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) need to work together to raise their profile and find ways to cope with a drastic fall in their income, disabled activists have been told. Meanwhile, new research aims to “make visible” the impact of the spending cuts on DPOs in London, and so help their [...]