For the full stories, please click on the links: The government appears to have left out any mention of the brutal cuts to disabled people’s benefits and services in a crucial report about how it is implementing the United Nations … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links:  New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played a much larger part in influencing those reforms than it previously … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links: A disabled woman and her husband who have been found dead in their house had spoken publicly of their struggle to obtain the benefits they needed to survive. MPs have accused … Continue reading →

For the full stories, please click on the links: A report into one of the most controversial of the government’s planned welfare reforms has been given a cool reception by leading disabled people’s organisations. Outraged campaigners have attacked the BBC … Continue reading →

Recommendations in a major government-backed report on “sickness absence” have placed a worrying question-mark over vital new equality laws that protect disabled job-seekers from discrimination, say campaigners. The health at work report was published last week, and has already secured … Continue reading →

A “powerful and enlightening” series of experimental poems has captured the lives of four disabled people in their own voices. Neglected Voices, a cycle of four sets of “transcription poems”*, has been praised by leading figures in the disability arts … Continue reading →

The government appears to have left out any mention of the brutal cuts to disabled people’s benefits and services in a crucial report about how it is implementing the United Nations (UN) disability convention. The report was submitted today (Thursday) … Continue reading →

Disability organisations have welcomed the second annual review of the government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, but have warned that progress on improving the assessment has been too slow. Professor Malcolm Harrington, who has carried out both independent reviews for … Continue reading →

A disabled activist with one of the country’s leading self-advocacy organisations has spoken of her pride in taking her council to court over its decision to remove their funding. Gina Barrett and colleagues from People First Lambeth (PFL) were in … Continue reading →

At least three disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) plan to submit evidence to a major inquiry to draw its attention to how some newspapers are stirring up hostility towards disabled people. The Leveson Inquiry was set up to examine the role … Continue reading →