Disability News Service

A UN committee of disabled experts has told the government that its new benefit cuts bill appears to be a fresh attack on disabled people’s rights, a year after it issued a similar warning to the Conservative government. The letter sent to […]

There is a race against time to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital evidence about flaws in the universal credit system before parliament passes a bill that will cut billions of pounds from disabled people’s support. The […]

Inclusive education campaigners have called for a “complete shift in thinking” on how disabled children and young people are educated, just as the government faces public uproar over reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. There were widespread reports […]

A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Minutes of a meeting in March show […]

Disabled campaigners have expressed their frustration with ministers after they imposed a “pause” on the most dangerous types of “floating” bus stop but refused to halt the rollout of all such installations. The National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFB […]

A new report – co-produced with a disabled people’s organisation – has suggested five “big ideas” that could transform disabled people’s mobility. The Transforming Mobility report aims to ensure disabled people are included when places “become more ambitious in transforming mobility”. The […]

A disabled journalist has said she hopes her new book detailing the history of disability activism will show other disabled people how they can fight back against the waves of attacks on their rights and support. Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s book, Ramping Up Rights: […]

Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite forcing ministers into last-minute changes that scrapped all their planned cuts to personal independence payment (PIP). Chaotic events in parliament on Tuesday, and three months […]

Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ chaotic last-ditch concessions to rebels that removed a significant chunk of their cuts bill. Marsha de Cordova, Marie Tidball and Emma Lewell all voted against […]

Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the personal independence payment (PIP) system, just as her government was trying to cut PIP spending by billions of pounds a year. Three […]

Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support were “ignored by design” during the pandemic. The inquiry heard on Monday that there were more than 43,000 deaths involving COVID-19 in care homes […]

Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if they vote for cuts to disability benefits, the “gloves will be off”. Ellen Clifford, one of the key organisers of the rally […]

A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve, or even shoot, them. It is just the […]

Only one in four inspections of local services for disabled children in England last year concluded that they usually lead to “positive experiences and outcomes” for those young people, the education regulator has announced. The findings from Ofsted showed that 28 inspections […]

Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. In her first interview since releasing her resignation letter […]

The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a bill passed by MPs so “tight” that only a very few people will be able to take advantage of […]

A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Stephen Timms (pictured) made the admission as he told the Commons […]

Disabled people’s lives will be increasingly in danger because of MPs’ failure to understand the risks posed by the assisted dying bill, devastated activists warned on Friday after the legislation was approved by the House of Commons. Disabled activists had started gathering […]

The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits must go ahead, despite the risk that they will once again cause countless deaths of disabled claimants. Sir Stephen Timms was giving […]

Disabled MPs have voted overwhelmingly against the assisted dying bill, and warned that it poses a clear danger to disabled people if it eventually becomes law. Although the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill was passed by the Commons by 314 […]