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kevinndaws
Dec 24, 20243 min read
It is time for the TRUTH to be exposed
Yesterday I was reading a book called Scapegoat – why we are failing disabled people by Katharine Quarmby. This book highlights the...
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kevinndaws
Dec 22, 20245 min read
Deaf History – a snapshot
In an earlier blog I made the point that much of deaf history is merged into the history of disability generally. Having said that I have...
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kevinndaws
Dec 21, 20242 min read
Disability History – can you help?
To Celebrate Disability History Month All4Inclusion have published biographies of ‘Disability Champions’ – some living, some now passed....
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kevinndaws
Dec 20, 20245 min read
Tanni Grey-Thompson Paralympian & Disability Campaigner
Tanni Grey-Thompson is best known as a Paralympian but in more recent years she has become a respected campaigner on making public...
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kevinndaws
Dec 19, 20244 min read
5-minute interview with Lady Omolola Oyewusi
Can I start by asking you to tell us a little about yourself? I'm Lady Omolola Oyewusi, the COO and founder of Magdalene ministry,...
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kevinndaws
Dec 18, 20244 min read
Njaimeh Mboge - Disability Campaigner
Today we publish the latest of our 5-Minute interviews celebrating Disability History Month. Today we are talking to Njaimeh Mboge who...
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kevinndaws
Dec 17, 20245 min read
Dan Smith Neurodiversity Champion
Today we publish the latest 5-minute interview to celebrate Disability History Month. Dan Smith is a Unite the Union Rep; Trainer,...
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kevinndaws
Dec 8, 20248 min read
Disability Champion - Baroness Jane Campbell
Baroness Jane Campbell has fought for equal rights for disabled people for as long as she can remember – from challenging special school...
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kevinndaws
Dec 7, 20246 min read
Opposing the new Labour Government’s cynical and unnecessary cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance
I’m sure that it will not be a surprise to anyone that last week that the UCU Disabled members Conference debated the new Labour...
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kevinndaws
Dec 6, 20244 min read
Disability Champion – Helen Keller ‘The Miracle Worker’
I think that most people have heard of Helen Keller. I first heard a little about her when I was at school, and it is an interesting...
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kevinndaws
Dec 5, 20244 min read
UCU Disabled Members call for Urgent Action on SEND
At the UCU Disabled Members Conference last Thursday we had an informed debate on the deepening crisis in Special Educational Needs...
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kevinndaws
Dec 3, 20243 min read
5-Minute interview with Maxine Looby, President of UCU
To celebrate Disability History Month All4Inclusion have been conducting 5-minute interviews with disabled people who are disability...
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kevinndaws
Dec 3, 20244 min read
Today is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities!
So why is there a special day for disabled people, and when did it start? The short answer to that question is that we want to...
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kevinndaws
Dec 2, 20244 min read
Disability Champion: Benjamin Ormond Purse OBE, was a British trade unionist and campaigner for the rights of blind people
Benjamin Ormond Purse (29 August 1874 – 31 March 1950) Benjamin Ormond Purse was born in Salford , Lancashire on 29...
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kevinndaws
Dec 1, 20245 min read
Assisted Dying vote refocuses the debate
On the eve of the parliamentary debate on the Assisted Suicide Bill, the disabled members of UCU, the lecturers trade union, debated the...
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kevinndaws
Nov 27, 20245 min read
A Trade Union Champion for Disabled People - Sean McGovern
Sean was a well-known and respected both within the Trade Union movement and the Disability movement The former Assistant General...
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kevinndaws
Nov 27, 20245 min read
Update on accessibility of public transport.
Since I originally published this post my colleague, Danielle from the West Midlands, who last month read out the letter from Phil at the...
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kevinndaws
Nov 25, 20243 min read
Mandy Sandhu - Unite Disability Campaigner in the North West
Can I start by asking you to tell us a little about yourself? I'm Mandy! I’m passionate about making the world a better place for people...
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kevinndaws
Nov 25, 20244 min read
The Government should support disabled people to succeed instead of setting them up to fail!
Over the weekend we have seen a lot of rhetoric about getting people into work and tackling benefit fraud. On Sunday the Prime Minister,...
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kevinndaws
Nov 24, 20245 min read
5 Minute Interview with Cecily Blyther
Can I start by asking you to tell us a little about yourself? Only within the last decade have I really come to realise how much people...
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