Measures in the Welfare Reform Bill are a major assault on the incomes and independence of blind, partially sighted and disabled people, says a new report.
Disabled people are hidden in daily life despite the public believing that they should be given a level-playing field of opportunity, a new poll shows.
The Department of Work and Pensions has indicated that it intends to roll out radical welfare-to-work reforms that could deny millions of disabled people adequate support, despite evidence of significant piloting failure.
Lord Ashley of Stoke has a question in the House of Lords tomorrow (Tuesday) and is calling on government to legislate for the independent living of disabled people.
Autism campaigners around the world are urging Pope Benedict XVI to act on autism in the wake of the banning of a 13 year old boy with severe autism from the Roman Catholic Church of St.Joseph, in Bertha, Minnesota in the United States.