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A new campaign aims to position England as a leading destination for disabled tourists. VisitEngland, the national tourist board, hopes that its Access for All marketing campaign will both champion and improve accessible tourism across the country. It has published guides […]
Activists hope an historic House of Commons debate will prove a significant step towards forcing the government to assess the overall impact of its welfare reforms on disabled people, and to scrap the hated “fitness for work” test. Backbench MPs agreed […]
MPs have backed demands for the government to assess the true damage caused by its welfare reforms to the lives of disabled people, after an historic debate in the House of Commons. The debate was secured by the Labour MP John […]
A peer is to ask the public spending watchdog why a long-awaited probe into the government’s new disability benefit ignored serious concerns over the award of a £184 million assessment contract. A National Audit Office (NAO) director told Lord [David] Alton […]
The government’s “fitness for work” contractor has failed to produce a single piece of evidence to back up its claim that it is withdrawing from the contract because of “death threats” against its staff. The claims were first reported by the […]
One of the UK’s two major disabled people’s representative organisations appears to have staved off the threat of insolvency. UK Disabled People’s Council (UKDPC) lost its last paid member of staff last summer, when its chief executive Jaspal Dhani was made […]
Scrapping disability living allowance (DLA) and replacing it with the new personal independence payment (PIP) could affect access to more than 100 local authority services, according to the disabled councillor who leads on equality for the capital’s councils. London Councils has […]
A disabled teenager who drowned in a bath while in the care of an NHS trust was a victim of “institutional disablism”, say campaigners. Connor Sparrowhawk, who had probably had an epileptic seizure, was on a unit that had at least […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was yet again mired in confusion today (27 February) after the minister for disabled people failed to tell MPs that he had called a halt to most repeat “fitness for work” tests. The decision […]
Two disabled peers are backing efforts to introduce a change in the law that would remove a major barrier to justice for victims of disability discrimination. New legal aid laws introduced last year have had what appear to be unintended consequences […]