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In an exclusive interview with ITV News’ Dan Hewitt, Baroness Louise Casey criticised the privatisation of the social care system and private companies who make large profits “off the back of disabled people” and taxpayers.

Ruth Madeley stars in Being Heumann, a new film telling the story of disability rights activist Judy Heumann, who led more than 100 young people in a landmark protest at San Francisco’s Federal Building, demanding equal rights for disabled people.

A wheelchair user was left in tears as she crawled on her “hands and knees” through a train after being told a ramp could not be used to help her off. Phoebe Tesoriere, 24, who lived in Caerphilly at the time, was on a Great Western Railway (GWR) train from London Paddington to Bath Spa when it happened.

Disability Rights UK has written to the chancellor ahead of the autumn budget, asking the Government to take short and long-term measures that lift Disabled people out of poverty and combat discrimination and exclusion.

Producer Natalie Lauren and writer Jo Clayton talk to ITV News Anglia and give a first look at their short film Unauthorised Absence about a single mother struggling against a rigid education system and school attendance penalties while trying to support her autistic daughter. In it, they talk about the realities behind school distress and why we felt this story needed to be told.