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Lack of Services for Disabled Children – Parliamentary Campaign Launch
Yesterday, the Disabled Children’s Partnership campaign was launched in parliament. Lib Dem Leader Vince Cable came along to show his support, as well as many other MPs, peers, charities and family...
View ArticleSal Brinton talks of being stuck in House of Lords as peer refused to move to...
The House of Lords debated the proposed works to the Palace of Westminster this week. Sal Brinton took advantage of the opportunity to make a plea for the refurbished Parliament to be properly...
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A new campaign to restore the political disability fund
I’m taking part in a campaign launched by the cross-party group More United today, to restore the fund that supports deaf and disabled people into political office and I’m asking you to join me by...
View ArticleTemporary reprieve for funds for disabled election candidates
Last month, David Buxton wrote about how the Government’s freezing of the Access to Elected Office Fund meant that he simply couldn’t stand in the 2017 General Election: For the 2015 General Election,...
View ArticleGlobal Disability Summit
People with disabilities account for 1 billion of the world’s population. Too often they are among the most marginalised and discriminated against groups – and too often international development...
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LibLink: Lynne Featherstone in New York for the Commission on the Status of...
Development Minister Lynne Featherstone spent two days in New York earlier this week at the United Nation’s annual Commission on the Status of Women. She posted a series of blogs from the Big Apple....
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The Independent View: Improving the lives of disabled people is essential for...
The role that Liberal Democrats play in drafting their party’s manifesto is unique in British politics. So is the party’s approach to disability. At the 2010 General Election the Liberal Democrats...
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Baroness Sal Brinton writes…Disabled rail travel: We’re not just treated like...
When people in wheelchairs meet one another, disabled travel experiences are a frequent topic of conversation. Rail, buses or taxi we have often encountered brilliant helpful staff, but frankly,...
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Martin Horwood writes … an important day for disability and international...
Select committee reports are often considered to be rather dry, even to the most politically active among us, which is why I feel particularly compelled to highlight the 11th report of the...
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In full: Baroness Northover’s speech to launch the DFID disability framework
Baroness Northover is parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for International Development. Here is the speech she made today, in the Houses of Parliament, to launch the DFID...
View ArticleOpinion: Enablement For All
View image | gettyimages.com I had the opportunity to tour a small business this week which makes cutting-edge prosthetic devices. It was fascinating – technology nowadays has moved on so much that...
View ArticleBaroness Liz Barker writes: The Tory threat to UK foreign policy
Lynne Featherstone and Lindsay Northover were outstanding DfID Ministers. During their tenure, with the support of Liberal Democrats in both houses, and throughout the party, for the first time,...
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Disability is nothing to hide, so let’s not act like it is
As a candidate for my home town in May’s local elections, I’ve helped residents fight for repairs to roads, I’ve lobbied for more action on dog mess and I’ve campaigned to prevent closures to...
View ArticleSal Brinton on the change of attitude needed so that disabled people can...
Embed from Getty Images Sal Brinton was part of the House of Lords Committee which produced today’s report which reviewed the impact of the Equality Act 2010 on disabled people. Its conclusions were...
View ArticleCompelling portrait of a disabled person who was one of the USA’s greatest...
Embed from Getty Images BBC 4 have surpassed themselves with “World War Two: 1945 & The Wheelchair President”. Professor David Reynolds presents a remarkably gripping and informed biography of...
View ArticleSupporting vision rehabilitation
All councils in England provide a service called vision rehabilitation which offers crucial training and advice to people living with sight loss. Evidence shows that many blind and partially sighted...
View ArticleBaroness Celia Thomas writes…Disability rights and Labour wrongs
Who would have thought that a valuable addition to the Licensing Act which would have made life better for disabled people had been scuppered by Labour Peers? And yet that is what happened on...
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Living costs more when you have a disability
Scope, the disability equality charity in England and Wales, has released a new report showing how life is more expensive for those living with disability. Their study shows that those with disability...
View ArticleLibLink: Christine Jardine: All consuming Brexit is making this country a...
Sarah Newton resigned as Disabilities Minister 3 weeks ago but she still hasn’t been replaced. In her Scotsman column this week, Christine Jardine outlined why a new minister was needed and soon. The...
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Social Mobility stagnates, with those from poorer backgrounds having...
The report out yesterday from the Social Mobility Commission deserves a closer look. It says that inequality is entrenched from birth. Lib Dems have argued for years about equality of opportunity –...
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