National Survey calls on disabled community to share experiences of access to music services Hello, I work for Creative United on the Take it away scheme, which offers interest-free loans for musical instruments, equipment, software and tuition, funded by Arts…
2018 Launch Event
Monday 19th November 2018, Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Parliament George McKay Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia Tinukeh Jonah sings If You Leave Kiri Tunks President National Education Union John Kelly Drake Music, performs two songs…
Day of Action on Disability Equality in the Education System gets support across the country. Meeting very successful
A woman speaks from a platform with campaigning pictures pinned to the table she is sitting at Union leads call for action on ‘silent massacre’ of disabled staff and students 0 BY JOHN PRING ON NOVEMBER 22, 2018 EDUCATION Focus…
Disability News Service Report on 19th November UKDHM launch
22 November 2018 Parliamentary event recognises disabled musicians who trumped oppression A parliamentary event has recognised some of the many artists over the centuries whose talent as musicians has “trumped” the oppression they experienced as disabled people. The event was…
UKDHM Supports the Day of Action on Wednesday November 21st Against Disability Discrimination in Education
UKDHM supports the Day of Action Against Disability Discrimination in Education. We are facing record cuts backs and quasi- privatisation in education which is leading to increasing disability discrimination angainst students and staff. This attack on disabled people’s rights is…
Article on UKDHM 2018 in The Teacher Magazine
Globally, Over 96% of Government Websites Hide Disabled Men and Women on Their Site
Over 96% of Government Websites Hide Disabled Men and Women on Their Site by Sarah Turner 4 JUL 2018 TLDR: Disabled people are almost non-existent on government and stock-photos websites, and when they are represented, they are not represented as whole individuals,…
Liverpool The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places now open Jan 2018- April 2018
The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places now open Dear all, The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places, has now opened at the Museum of Liverpool. This is the second of our three exhibitions about the lives of deaf and…
Mike Oliver delivers a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities
BY JOHN PRING ON NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Listen One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first defined…
St Pauls’s Byatt Road, Stoke on Trent – Art Competition Winners
St Paul’s remove the barriers to disability through art The competition was idea of Nursery Teacher Mrs Turton who was finding out about the UK Disability History Month which started yesterday. She held a gallery to display the art work…