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Welcome to the RADAR Media Centre. On these pages you can find news stories on disability issues, download RADAR's recent press releases and follow RADAR's campaigns in the news. See the Recent Stories list below or choose from the following links:

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NEWS - 2009

Click here to view all news items, statements and press releases from 2009.

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Click here for a list of RADAR Press Releases from December 2008 to August 2005

SPEECHES AND ARTICLES

Read public speeches and published articles by RADAR Staff on disability policies and issues.
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Recent Stories and Press Releases

26/02/2010 - RADAR and Not Dead Yet UK welcome the removal of disability and terminal illness from the DPP’s Guidelines on Assisted Suicide Prosecutions

05/02/2010 -  Disability rights in Europe: act now to win rights to accessible products and better public transport.New laws are being negotiated now in Europe on access to services and bus and coach transport respectively. However UK Government is failing to fight for stronger disability rights at the European level. Help us to put pressure on them. Contact Gordon Brown online now as part of the joint Sense, RADAR, Leonard Cheshire Disability, RNIB and RNID campaign.
 

05/02/2010 - Send the All Party Parliamentary Group your top five priorities for a new Government 

04/02/2010 - An address by Mark Shrimpton, RADAR's joint deputy CEO, to the Assist UK AGM on involving disabled people in the delivery of goods and services 

27/01/2010 - Lynn Gilderdale and Assisted Suicide: Hard Cases Make Bad Law  

27/01/2010 - The Daily Mail is running an on-line poll on whether or not people who help terminally ill relatives to die should face prosecution. Click here to register your vote.

26/01/2010 - A Petition on the Downing Street Website to save funding for Freedom Passes in London. Please sign this petition to stop a £29 million government funding cut to Londoners’ Freedom Passes -- deadline Friday 29 January 

19/01/2010 - Amendments to Equality Bill would outlaw Pre-Emptive Health Checks by employers 

For further discussion of the impact of pre-employment health checks, including background, the experience of employers and employees, facts, figures and extracts from studies, please read the RADAR Think Piece by Liz Sayce, “What’s the Point in Pre-Employment Health Checks?”  

18/01/2010 - RADAR mourns the passing of Judi Chamberlin, one of the most influential activists of the mental health user/survivor and disability movements. 

11/01/2010 - RADAR welcomes Speaker's Conference Report - Practical Action needed to create route into Politics for Disabled People 

24/12/2009 - Department of Health Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA): Community of Practice - a chance for Third Sector organisations to contribute to the process.

22/12/2009 - Mike Smith, Chair of the National Centre for Independent Living, has been appointed the new Chair of the Disability Committee of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Warmest congratulations to Mike, and best wishes for his new post. Click here to read more about Mike on the EHRC website. 

18/12/2009 - Lamb Inquiry: RADAR urges Government to boost disabled children's right to an Inclusive Education in the Equality Bill

16/12/2009 - RADAR Leadership Project wins Young Muslim Beacon Award 2009, awarded by the Muslim Council of Britain.

01/12/2009 - RADAR is delighted to announce the winners of the 2009 People of the Year Awards! 

19/11/2009 - RADAR Diversity Supplement in today's Independent Newspaper - each year the Indepepndent, our media partner for the People of the Year Awards, and RADAR produce a Diversity Supplement; click here to read the supplement on-line. 

19/11/2009 - RADAR and other leading charities statement in aletter to the Times on the Conservative and Labour Party positions on Disability Living Allowance

19/11/2009 - New Programme 'Cast-Offs' likely to provoke a storm of comment from disabled people  (Press Release)

10/11/2009 - RADAR leads the way in tackling under-representation of disabled people in leadership roles

05/11/2009 - RADAR announces the 2009 People of the Year Awards Shortlist