Weekly News Round Up
Our weekly round up from Disability News Service with stories and articles from the national press.
MPs launch inquiry into DWP safeguarding, after decade of deaths
Headlines this week:
- MPs launch inquiry into DWP safeguarding, after decade of deaths
- Pursglove publishes ‘action plan’ of working groups, reviews and awareness-raising
- Pressure mounts on ministers and rail companies over ticket office closures
- Activists launch legal action over ‘woefully inadequate’ ticket office consultations
- Urgent evidence needed to help UN ‘see behind government smoke and mirrors’
- DWP websites and IT systems still ‘high risk’ on accessibility, a year after secret reports
- Minister made ‘political’ decision to rule out safe evacuation for disabled people
- DWP makes tiny dent in Access to Work queue, 12 months on
- Wimbledon apologises after disabled tennis fan is forced to use service lift
- Other disability-related stories covered by mainstream media this week
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He launched DNS in April 2009 to address the absence of in-depth reporting in both the specialist and mainstream media on issues that affect the lives of disabled people.