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DAVID CAMERON’S war on “red tape” has led to disabled people facing “disgraceful” discrimination in everyday life, according to a damning Lords report released today.
Peers found disabled people still face barriers to access public services, transport, leisure facilities or even the toilet when they’re out of the house.
The committee — appointed to look at the impact of the 2010 Equality Act on disabled people — warned the government’s “red tape challenge” is being used as a “pretext for removing protection” by public authorities, business and bosses.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports