By Jayne McCubbin & Ruth CleggBBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59388886 One hundred people with learning disabilities and autism in England have been held in specialist hospitals for at least 20 years, the BBC has learned. The finding was made during an investigation…
Press Release for UKDHM 2021
Launch Tonight at 7pm UK Disability History Month for 12th Year! Twin themes: Disability and Hidden Impairment.Under the definition of the Equality Act, 80% of the over 14million people who are disabled have hidden impairments. They face the double whammy of being disabled,…
ITV News focus on UKDHM
To mark UK Disability History month, ITV Reporter Katharine Walker has been hearing about the experiences of disabled people and finding out about their vision for the future.
Early Day Motion in UK Parliament
Get Your MP to sign! https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59089 EDM (Early Day Motion) 607: tabled on 01 November 2021 Tabled in the 2021-22 session. Motion text That this House recognises 18 November to 18 December is Disability History Month which is now in its…
Interview with UKDHM founder
In this podcast Richard talks us through Disability History Month 2020 and how it all began. Sparked partly by the election of a conservative government which threatened the rights of disabled people, and a conversation in which the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month asked why disabled people didn’t have their own month too, Richard began to raise support.
In this podcast we talk activism, lack of ally-ship, BLM, ableism and how access is still a major barrier for disabled people in Britain.
UKDHM Banner on Nottingham Town Hall
BBC Programmes on Eugenics
Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics – the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps – originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community. The presenters…
BBC marks 25th Anniversary of DDA with a series of dramas, documentaries, news packages and discussions
SOURCE: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/bbc-set-for-month-long-season-to-mark-25th-anniversary-of-disability-discrimination-act/ The BBC is to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) next month with a series of dramas, documentaries, news packages and discussions. Among the month-long season will be a series of six…
UKDHM 2020 Press Release
PRESS RELEASE LAUNCH UK DISABILITY HISTORY MONTH 2020 WEDNESDAY 18th NOVEMBER 7-9pm ONLINE. Theme of 11th Year of UK Disability History Month is ACCESS: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME ? HOW FAR DO WE HAVE TO GO? 25 years after…
Was 1995 the year that changed everything for disabled people?
By Eleanor Lawrie
– BBC News It’s 25 years since mass protests helped pressure the government into making it illegal to discriminate against someone because of their disability. The rights of disabled people have changed significantly since then, but many…