Are you an advice worker in a DDPO? Do you have colleagues who provide advice services for Deaf and Disabled people? Disabled people are being hit hard by increases in food and fuel costs. We need you to help us measure the impact inclusionlondon.org.uk/news/cost-of-l…

Please do write to your MP. The Govt Social Care Charging Cap will block working age disabled people's aspirations, ask MPs to take heed of the Lords amendments that were passed last night before they vote again on this issue Disability Rights UK Mencap Scope Nikki Fox - BBC News & Watchdog Presenter

The Bureau Local is reporting from around the country on appalling delays in delivering adaptations for Disabled people’s homes thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-0…. One woman waited five years for a Disabled Facilities Grant, meanwhile showering in the garden with a hose.

These stories are not rare. Dozens more are coming out in response to The Bureau Local’s story. A 2018 independent review of the DFG recommended fundamental change. When is this coming? @luhc Michael Gove Department of Health and Social Care Sajid Javid When will you fix our #DisablingHomes?

Jeremy Hunt, will your select committee investigate the response to the independent review of the DFG? Lisa Nandy MP Wes Streeting MP, will you push the government to do more to adapt inaccessible homes?

SOAS University of London Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellow Dr Julia Modern is working on a collaborative project with Dr Kikuko Sakai at Kanazawa Seiryo University in Japan. Their project, funded by JSPS, looks at how disabled people and their families arrange care in two regions of Uganda.

"Most homes in the UK are not even able to be visited by disabled people, let alone lived in." Our campaigners explain why we're holding a day of action to demand accessible housing 📢 #Housing #AccessDenied 📅 Monday 29th July, 12-1:30pm 🗺️ Parliament Square, SW1P 3JX

I'm delighted that my PhD thesis has made it to the shortlist for the ASAUK Best Thesis Prize. Thank you to the committee! African Studies Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society SOAS Department Of Anthropology AfricanStudiesUK

🎙️NEW PODCAST!🎙️ Disability News Service joins us to discuss how a deadly culture of cruelty and cover-up endured within the DWP over the course of successive governments. Listen here: plutobooks.com/blog/podcast-t…

Our ESRC Fellow Julia Modern has a guest blog on Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power site, exploring how implicit racist assumptions about expertise undermine deaf people’s inclusion in development spaces in Uganda! Check it out: frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/when-inclusion…

When #inclusion is an illusion: sign language interpreters and the pitfalls for ‘inclusive’ development frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/when-inclusion… Super Duncan Green blog by Julia Modern on #DisabilityInclusiveDevelopment

In a first for Policy & Practice 's From Poverty to Power Blog, we've included a Ugandan Sign Language translation of my recent post: youtu.be/JAnD7x0vYLo?fe… Thanks to translator Ssenyondo Nasser See the blog and video translation here: frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/when-inclusion…