The government has refused to rule out further cuts to disability benefits, after fresh plans to curb spending were announced in this week’s budget. The chancellor, George Osborne, announced there would be a new limit on a large part of what is known as annually managed expenditure (AME). AME is spending that rises or falls [...]

Criminal justice agencies must work closely with disabled people and their organisations if they are to correct their failure to deal with disability hate crime, say campaigners. They spoke out as an independent report on the barriers to the identification, investigation and prosecution of disability hate crime across England and Wales concluded that it was [...]

A disabled peer has appealed to user-led organisations to join her fight to protect a legal duty that keeps the Equality and Human Rights Commission pushing for fairness, dignity and respect. Earlier this month, Baroness [Jane] Campbell secured her first victory over the government in the Lords, by defeating plans to remove section three of [...]

A pioneering project to develop an archive for the disability arts movement has secured vital lottery funding. The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA) will provide a home for some of the most influential and important work since the birth of the disability arts movement in mid-1970s Britain. The aim is to preserve and [...]