Disability News Service

New analysis shows a pool of just 28 MPs who have shown themselves to be the strongest allies to disabled people when voting on crucial disability rights legislation in the last month. The group of 28 allies includes three Labour MPs – […]

New post-Grenfell regulations designed to ensure disabled people can safely evacuate from high-rise residential buildings will instead continue to put their lives in grave danger, the government has been told. Inclusion London said it was “deeply concerned” that lives would be lost […]

Recommendations for widespread improvements to the way the air travel industry treats disabled passengers could make a “tangible real-world difference” to their experiences with airports and airlines, but only if the measures are implemented. The Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group (AATFG) […]

The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to figures released just hours after ministers pushed through billions of pounds of cuts to part of the working-age benefits system. The number […]

The rail regulator has been asked why it has failed to do more in an annual report to stress disabled people’s right to “turn up and go” when accessing the railway network. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) released new figures […]

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has refused to explain why she whipped up hostility against disabled people by warning of the “ticking time bomb” caused by increased benefits spending, when social security expenditure has been stable for years. Badenoch delivered a speech last […]

Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives. Despite efforts to defeat the much-changed bill, or at […]

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 […]