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Disabled activists have criticised the government’s policy of turning up unannounced at the home of social security claimants to check their benefit payments are correct. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) insists that such visits have been government policy for […]
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) across London are building a new partnership that will allow them to bid jointly for funds to deliver their own employment support. The consortium will be able to build on some of the expertise developed by local […]
A government minister has criticised the “intolerable” failure of the NHS and local authorities to remove people with learning difficulties from out-of-area assessment and treatment units and return them to their home areas. The Liberal Democrat care and support minister Norman […]
The Metropolitan police have launched an inquiry into the policing of a five-hour protest outside Westminster Abbey, apparently following allegations that officers prevented disabled activists from receiving food, drink and medication. It is just the latest inquiry to examine how the […]
The dean of Westminster has been heavily criticised after he denied disabled activists permission to protest on ground outside Westminster Abbey, and asked police officers to arrest them if they refused to leave. The campaigners were aiming to set up a […]
Disabled activists have explained why they set up a protest camp in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, sparking a huge police operation involving more than 200 officers. Members of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) spent months planning the direct action with […]
The work and pensions secretary has admitted that the huge delays facing thousands of disabled people applying for the government’s new disability benefit are “unacceptable”. Iain Duncan Smith was responding to criticism from his Labour shadow that the implementation of personal […]
An MP has called for Atos to be stripped of the right to bid for government contracts, after an inquiry concluded that it appears to have used “potentially misleading” information to win disability assessment contracts worth nearly £400 million. Fiona Mactaggart, […]
The Supreme Court has ruled against three legal challenges that would have relaxed the laws on assisted suicide, but the complicated series of judgments has done little to reassure disabled activists fighting the threat of new legislation. The three appeals were […]
More than 99 per cent of disabled people who use the Independent Living Fund (ILF) believe that it improves their ability to live independently, just as the government is preparing to abolish it. The coalition is planning to close ILF in […]