
Lynn Murray: MPs must stop abortion law discriminating against those with disabilities
It cannot be right that the law offers stringent protections against unequal treatment only after birth.
It cannot be right that the law offers stringent protections against unequal treatment only after birth.
Factors responsible for reading problems include poor teaching, visual stress under fluorescent light, and temporary hearing loss in early childhood.
With nearly 14 million disabled people living in the UK, more should be involved in legislation and decision making.
We need specific, ring-fenced funding for them – which we on the Women and Equalities committee have been calling for.
Introduced with the best of intentions, they have grown and morphed beyond reason – more so than Macpherson could surely have imagined.
The levelling up agenda depends upon nation-wide digital inclusivity. If we give up on this, we will be trying to deliver it with one hand held behind our back.
The first in a mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on Covid-19 – and helping those in deep poverty.
We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.
I urge Ministers to make one simple change to the Domestic Abuse Bill – to start the necessary recording of data of victims and survivors.
The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.
The Government needs to expand the definition of ‘vulnerable’ to include carers and families with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).
To respect devolution, the UK Government must not impose such a drastic development on the Province. Is this a test run for England?
The Government’s current approach to contracts locks out small, specialist providers in exchange for a handful of multinationals.
Plus: More Ronseal, please. And: If the Treasury wants to flick multiple V-signs at blue collar voters, it will put up fuel duty.
There has been no consultation with those who live in the part of the UK that these changes would affect.