(provisional dates 1 or 5 March 2012)

Contact your MP now to urge them to vote down or radically revise the Welfare Reform Bill.

A move towards the ‘biopsychosocial’ model.

Assessment thresholds and consultation.

To provide information advice and support to those who may be victims of discrimination.

Disabled activists take the social media world by storm.

Report warns urgent action is needed. 

Over thirty organisations raise their concerns.

Next Vigils & Lobbies: 1pm-3pm, Monday 23 Jan, Wednesday 25 Jan, Tuesday 31 Jan.

Consultations are running till 9 February on proposals to remove traffic lights at junctions in Westminster Croydon and City of London.

Twenty organisations have written a letter expressing deep concern at the government’s proposals to abolish crisis loans and community care grants, which act as the ultimate safety net for those in need of support.

Strong opposition to government’s proposals for Personal Independence Payment was revealed by research published in the Responsible Reform report.

defend benefit rights, stop evictions

Vigil & lobby of Parliament

1pm Wed 11 January

Government committee expresses concerns that exceptional cases funding will be inadequate and breaches of the Convention of human rights may result, following proposed cuts to legal aid.

Over sixty organisations signed a letter calling for fundamental and lasting reform of the social care system.

A press release from the Department of Transport.

Inclusion London consults DDPOs

People with dementia at higher risk of financial abuse.

Join the Care and Support Alliance at the End the Care Crisis: Lobby 2012 on Tuesday 6th March 2012 in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster.

Advocacy cuts raise fears of health and care abuse.

Inclusion London recommends that the Equality and Human Rights Commission monitors all government communications with the press, as the media continues to portray disabled people as ‘scroungers and cheats’.

Pressure from Deaf and disabled people’s organisations persuaded Maria Miller, to U turn on the decision to cut the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)/Personal Independence Allowance (PIP) from those in residential homes.

According to ‘Unlimited Potential?’ a recently published report, some people with hearing loss were forced to resign, retire early or made redundant.

Impaired adults twice as likely to experience barriers to employment.

Sign the petition

Inclusion London highlights the reality of cuts in social care budgets and tightening of social care eligibility criteria experienced by disabled people.

Inclusion London, together with 10 supporting organisations and networks of disabled people made a submission to the Leveson inquiry to voice our growing alarm and concern at the increasingly hostile and inaccurate portrayal of disabled people in the media.

Get your MP to sign this Inclusive Education support EDM number 2481.

Got two minutes? Sign the petition, there’s only a few weeks left to influence the Welfare Reform Bill before it becomes law. The Bill will bring in changes to welfare benefits that will hit disabled people hard.

– improved but no radical change

Support and information services are disappearing at a frightening rate due to funding cuts.

Inclusion London recommends that a major new development in the Olympic boroughs is accessible and inclusive.

Pedestrian crossings in several London boroughs, including Camden, Islington and Hackney have been targeted for closure as part to the Mayor’s ‘smoothing the traffic flow’ plans.

Opening on Saturday 21 January 2012

A report recently published by Sheffield Hallam University suggests that nearly 600,000 incapacity claimants will be pushed out of the benefits system entirely by reforms to the benefit system.

A judge ruled that Isle of Wight council's plans to cut the social care budget for two disabled adults is unlawful.

The DWP is introducing changes to the Work Capability Assessment following Professor Harrington’s first independent review. However, root and branch reform of the crude assessment system is lacking.

The ‘Rights, Welfare and Law. Legal Aid Advocacy in Austerity Britain’, report, recommends that legal aid is retained for all Welfare Benefits cases.

Disabled people living in state funded residential care ‘should be eligible to receive the mobility component on the same basis as disabled people receiving care in their own home’

Thousands of vulnerable Londoners could be missing out on free insulation or help with heating their homes, which will cut fuel bills and save energy. The Mayor Boris Johnson is urging Londoners to find out what help is available as part of this year's 'Know Your Rights' campaign.

SCOPE’s is putting forward an assessment for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which takes account of the social, practical and environmental barriers disabled people face.

Care in the community system was started at the time of the closure of the old mental hospitals, begun in 1960’s, but not accompanied by an increase in funding for community-based services.

Government figures have revealed new evidence of an alarming slump in the number of disabled people granted funds to make their workplaces more accessible.

Inclusion London calls on the Mayor to fully fund an accessible transport system in London.

Inclusion London’s annual conference was ‘an excellent event’, ‘well worth attending’ and‘useful and informative’. The theme of the conference was ‘Understanding the challenges and opportunities for Deaf/disabled people’s organisations of the new and emerging funding environment’.

Angry disabled people confronted the minister for disabled people and London’s mayor when they addressed a conference held to discuss disability issues in the capital.

Successful protest against cuts to disability benefits and services.

One in three parents of disabled children received no holiday childcare during summer 2011, according to a survey conducted by KIDS in partnership with Mencap.

The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) is working together with the British Library to record the educational experiences of disabled people over the last 100 years.

22 October outside London's GLA building, Queen's Walk. Meeting from 11.00am with speeches from 11.30am, to protest against cuts to disability benefits and services. Contact: london@hardesthit.org.uk

Deadline for the consultation responses is 31 October 2011, please let us know your views.

A new study of how media are reporting disability in the context of government spending cuts reveals a major shift in how disabled people are portrayed and the negative impact this is having on public attitudes and on disabled people themselves.

The equality and human rights commission (EHRC) launched its consultation on its strategic plan for 2012-2015 on 11 October 2011. The deadline for responses is 12 December 2011.

The government is seeking views on the priorities for improving care and support through its consultation, ‘Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support’. The deadline for responses is 2 December.

Four in ten (320,000) disabled children in the UK are living in poverty according to a new report commission by the Children’s Society.

Last chance to book your place.

A broad range of organisations have come together to express their opposition to the government's plans to change rules for Housing Benefit in supported housing.

Inclusion London's survey has been extended until Monday 10 October.

The Mayor Boris Johnson and the Minister for Disabled People Maria Miller will be answering pre submitted questions from people attending the Disability Capital conference on 20 October.

In the future many more adults with a learning disability may continue living with their parents into their adult lives, rather than being supported to live independently, according to new research published by Mencap.

Disabled people targeted by mobility aids firms

The coalition government’s Welfare Reform Bill is moving on to its next stage in the House of Lords sooner than expected.

A new report published by Scope ‘maps’ the impact of local authority cuts on service delivery to disabled people.

The House of Commons Health Select Committee is inviting evidence to its inquiry on adult social care, particularly of those people of 65 years of age and older.

Inclusion London’s believes that the punitive and flawed Work Capability Assessment for Employment Support Allowance should be stopped now until the problems identified by disabled people are addressed.

Calling all London’s Deaf and disabled peoples organisations….

Publication reports disabled people are often dealing with a double disadvantage that caused or substantially contributed to the financial difficulties they experienced.

EHRC publishes hate crime report

Poverty and disadvantage will increase for disabled people if government’s proposals to abolish DLA and supplant it with PIP go ahead.

The government intends to abolish Disability Living Allowance and replace it with PIP for those of working age from 2013.

Disabled people will not have enough money for everyday essentials like food and transport, due to government cuts, according to new evidence revealed recently by the charity Papworth Trust.

The Lib Dems will be voting on motion calling for fundamental changes to the Employment and Support Allowance assessment system.

A leaked government report has revealed ‘disturbing’ levels of discrimination, bullying and harassment faced by disabled civil servants.

Government’s 'misleading use of statistics' has encouraged some tabloids to run stories that accuse disabled people of being 'scroungers' and 'shirkers'.

Closer examination of the figures revealed number of new claimants has, in fact, been dropping.

The coalition government’s replacement of the disabled director of its Office for Disability Issues (ODI) with a non-disabled civil servant, without advertising the post externally, has caused concern among disabled people.

The Low Review is calling for evidence about personal mobility needs of disabled people in state-funded residential care.

More than 2,000 charities and community groups are facing cuts or total withdrawal of funding, including 151 ‘disability-related charities’.

A disabled activist with People First Lambeth (PFL) has won the right to challenge Lambeth council’s decision not to renew PFL’s annual contracts.

Parliament’s Work and Pensions select committee has condemned the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) as ‘flawed’.

New figures published this week show the number of disabled people receiving Acess to Work (AtW) support fell from 37,270 in 2009-10 to 35,830 in 2010-11.

Government is consulting on its response to the ‘Getting in, staying in and getting on’ report.

Ofcom is consulting on proposals for a duty on telephone service providers to provide ‘relay’ services for people with hearing and speech impairments

A legal challenge to local housing allowance (LHA) reforms by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) was heard in the High Court on 21 July.

Views and evidence about the Work Capability Assessment is invited as part of the second independent review by Professor Malcolm Harrington.

Parliament’s Work and Pension Select Committee has decided to conduct an inquiry into coalition government plans to replace DLA with ‘Personal Independence Payment’ (PIP).

Read Inclusion London’s analysis of the new report on Fairer Care Funding – the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. The Commission’s report was published on 4 July 2011.

The supreme court decision against Elaine McDonald’s appeal for her care package to include assistance to use the toilet at night is a blow against the human rights of all disabled people.

Inclusion London, along with many other equality organisations, has been critical of the minimalist nature of these specific duties.

Disability Alliance (DA), has taken the first step in potential legal action against the coalition government’s plans to abolish Disability Living Allowance.

Inclusion London is protesting the decision to move the annual Liberty disability festival out of Trafalgar Square.

Inclusion London opposes the government’s bias towards special school’s and supports inclusion in mainstream schools

A new report published by Inclusion London presents key data about the lives of disabled Londoners today.

Inclusion London opposes any weakening of the Equality Act 2010.

A new bill could enable disabled people to move home to another local authority in England or Wales without having to renegotiate social care support.

Police services are failing learning disabled people when they experience hate crime

Inclusion London, is opposing government plans for sweeping cuts to the powers, budget and work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Inclusion London’s new information paper looks at the government’s green paper 'Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability’.

The government is consulting on plans to cut the budget and powers of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Over the next year, the government is expected to make major proposals to change adult social care provision.

A catalogue of abuse of disabled people was uncovered by BBC investigation at Winterbourne View.

The Bill proposals are a big threat to disabled people.

Early Day Motion (EDM) calls attention to the need to tackle discrimination in employment.

A landmark legal ruling paves the way for local authorities to be challenged if they attempt to cut care services.

Thousands of disabled people took part in the protest to show the government how strongly the cuts are opposed.

The number of ‘new customers’ granted funding under the Access to Work (ATW) scheme has fallen sharply.

Inclusion London responded to the inquiry by the Joint Committee of Human Rights, into the implementation of the right to independent living for disabled people, as guaranteed by Article 19, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The planning Inspectorate has published his report on the London Plan 'Examination in Public' (EIP). Inclusion London engaged with the EIP process in 2010 to secure improvements in Mayor Johnson's draft replacement London Plan.

Inclusion London responded to the government’s latest proposals for the public sector equality duties, saying why we are dismayed that the government is consulting yet again and why the proposals would be very bad for disabled people.

UPDATED! Join us for a march, lobby of Parliament and rally on 11 May (new location for the rally)

Inclusion London is in the process of working with CEOs and others to develop and deliver regular CEO network meetings.

A new government website -Red Tape Challenge- asks people if they Equality Act 2010 should be ‘scrapped’.

Government’s planned cuts to legal could hit disabled people ‘disproportionately’ hard.

A new report launched by Inclusion London reveals the profound barriers to equality faced by Deaf and disabled Londoners.

The government’s response to the consultation on the future of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reform, published on 4 April, shows they have failed to listen to disabled people.

Proposed changes would make it harder for disabled people to challenge policies and decisions.

TUC demonstration against cuts The TUC is organising a national march and rally on 26 March 2011 to oppose the government's programme public spending cuts.

Inclusion London's new information paper provides information about the proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill.

A wide range of cancer charities have set out their strong objections to plans in the welfare reform bill to cut DLA and Employment Support Allowance.

Lobby and rally against the attacks to benefits and rights of disabled people proposed in the Welfare Reform Bill.The protests will be on Wednesday 11th May, at Westminster.

On 16 February 2011 the coalition government published its Welfare Reform Bill. The Bill sets out proposals that will lower the incomes, reduce the independence and increase the impoverishment of huge numbers of disabled people. Inclusion London will be working with other disabled people’s organisations to oppose the attacks that are contained in the Bill.

Inclusion London’s strongly opposes the government’s proposals to reform Disability Living Allowance, (DLA) and introduce the Personal Independence Payment, (PIP).

The government is proposing to cut legal aid very severely. The consultation ends on 14 February – please use Inclusion London’s response to help you make your own submission.

Launching a new version of its Disability and Work guide to the law and good practice, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) warned that public spending cuts may mean disproportionately harsh job losses for disabled people. This because a higher proportion of disabled people work in the public than in the private sector.

Government plans to cut Disability Living Allowance are facing growing criticism. Evidence about the negative impact of the proposals on poverty, barriers to equality and rights is growing.

Inclusion London is supporting Justice for All, which is an alliance of voluntary groups and advice agencies campaigning against government proposals to cut Legal Aid. Disabled people will be hit very severely by the government’s proposals.

Inclusion London has responded to the consultation on the government’s proposals for social housing. The submission is available for download and contains key facts and information for DPOs. The consultation closes on 17 January 2011.

Starting this month, London’s 90,000 Taxicard members face bigger restrictions on travel and independence as a result of funding cuts to the popular scheme. The cuts will mean increased prices for shorter and fewer journeys and will limit the number

An online petition against the government’s removal of the mobility component of DLA for people living in care homes has been launched.

Health professionals who are using a controversial new test to assess disabled people for out-of-work disability benefits believe the threshold for claiming the payments has been raised too high, according to new government-funded research.

The government is consulting on its proposed changes to social housing, which were announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review in October.

The government has launched a consultation on its proposals for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for working age disabled people.

Our new policy information paper explains key problems with the government’s proposals for Universal Credit.

Your views needed

Inclusion London analyses the impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Deaf and disabled people.

‘Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond’

Inclusion London’s seminar on Thursday 23 September was a great success.