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A local authority appears to have ignored three warnings that a former Mencap advisor – who has previously been arrested over two unconnected rape allegations – is being allowed to spend time with disabled service-users with high support needs. Brian McGinnis […]
Ministers have refused to say why the number of disabled people having benefits temporarily removed for breaching strict conditions has soared in the first three months of this year. The new figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show […]
The government has been accused of failing in its duty of care towards disabled people, after an inquest heard how a disabled woman wrote a suicide note blaming the “bedroom tax” for her decision to kill herself. Stephanie Bottrill, from Solihull, […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been ridiculed for delivering a major speech about his sweeping welfare reforms, without mentioning the disastrous impact that many of the changes are having on disabled people. Duncan Smith spoke of how the […]
The police watchdog has refused to say whether it is concerned about a force which has been criticised four times in just three years over its policies and procedures on disability. Last week, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) detailed how […]
The minister for disabled people has been urged by his Labour shadow to take urgent action to tackle the lengthy backlogs and delays plaguing the government’s new disability benefit. Labour’s Kate Green said in her letter to Mark Harper this week […]
The Mental Health Resistance Network considers Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) to be a profound violation of human rights and we regard the use of forced medication to be a violent assault. In the UK we do not inflict physical punishment on […]
Users of the Independent Living Fund, including Anne Pridmore (centre with red hat) were outside the Royal Courts of Justice with other disabled activists in March 2013. Pridmore and four other ILF-users were asking the high court to overturn government plans […]
The care watchdog is facing allegations of a cover-up, after refusing to answer key questions about how it dealt with the fall-out from a day centre abuse scandal. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) was told last year that nursing assistant Susan […]
A police force has been criticised by a watchdog for the fourth time in three years over its policies and procedures on disability. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found poor performance by staff of Greater Manchester police (GMP), following an […]