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Disabled campaigners have raised concerns about government plans to expand an internship programme that could potentially exploit disabled young people. Last week’s budget included plans to spend another £3 million over the next two years on expanding its supported internships programme. […]
A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma attacks, accidental overdoses and repeated blackouts, in one of the clearest examples yet of a dishonest benefits assessment report, secret recordings have revealed. A video recording of the assessment also shows […]
A local authority has been heavily criticised for introducing new ways of consulting on disability issues that will exclude most disabled people from taking part. East Riding of Yorkshire Council previously ran a disability advisory and monitoring group (DAMG) which allowed […]
Four-fifths of disabled teachers face harassment and discrimination at the hands of head teachers and other senior managers, disabled union delegates have been told. Members of the TUC Disabled Workers Conference (pictured) heard of the “growing evidence of increasing and blatant […]
A maths teacher who was told by managers after she became disabled that if she had been a horse she would have been “taken out and shot” has spoken of a campaign of bullying and harassment that left her traumatised and […]
An activist has told a Labour conference fringe meeting how her attempts to secure the support she needed after becoming disabled left her feeling “like a human pinball”. Catherine Scarlett became disabled four years ago, and has faced an “incredibly steep […]