• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advice/Information
  • About DNS
  • Subscribe to DNS
  • Advertise with DNS
  • Support DNS
  • Contact DNS

Disability News Service

the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues

  • Home
  • Independent Living
    • Arts, Culture and Sport
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Housing
    • Transport
  • Activism & Campaigning
  • Benefits & Poverty
  • Politics
  • Human Rights
You are here: Home / Archives for Errol Graham

Errol Graham

Sunak’s ‘chilling, threatening’ speech on benefits ‘demonised disabled people’

By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Politics

Sunak’s ‘chilling, threatening’ speech on benefits ‘demonised disabled people’
Listen

The prime minister has been accused of whipping up hostility towards disabled people, and demonising and scapegoating claimants of disability benefits, with a new series of “chilling” reforms that will weaken the social security safety net. Rishi Sunak announced plans for […]

DPAC demands ‘no more deaths from benefit cuts’ outside DWP headquarters

By John Pring on 7th March 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC demands ‘no more deaths from benefit cuts’ outside DWP headquarters
Listen

Disabled activists have explained why they travelled from across England to protest outside the headquarters of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at social security reforms they say will put the lives of even more claimants at risk. Monday’s protest […]

DWP was wrong to stop benefits of man who starved to death, inquiry finds

By John Pring on 2nd November 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP was wrong to stop benefits of man who starved to death, inquiry finds
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should not have stopped the benefits of a disabled man who later starved to death, an updated safeguarding review has found after being shown information DWP hid from its original inquiry. It is the […]

DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death

By John Pring on 8th June 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial information to a statutory safeguarding review about a disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed. Nottingham City […]

MPs raise concerns over DWP death evidence ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 25th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs raise concerns over DWP death evidence ‘cover-up’
Listen

MPs have raised concerns over the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it hid vital evidence from a statutory safeguarding review into a disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly stopped. Nottingham City […]

DWP hid vital evidence from starvation death inquiry, board confirms

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP hid vital evidence from starvation death inquiry, board confirms
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of “absolutely disgraceful” behaviour after confirmation that it hid vital evidence from a statutory safeguarding inquiry into why a disabled man starved to death after his benefits were wrongly stopped. DNS […]

Errol Graham: DWP ‘hid key evidence’ from inquiry into starvation death

By John Pring on 11th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: DWP ‘hid key evidence’ from inquiry into starvation death
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have hidden crucial evidence from an inquiry into how a disabled man starved to death after having his benefits wrongly stopped, Disability News Service can reveal. The long-awaited safeguarding review into the […]

Errol Graham: DWP criticised by report into disabled man’s starvation death

By John Pring on 11th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Errol Graham: DWP criticised by report into disabled man’s starvation death
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in an official report for the first time for failings that contributed to the death of a disabled man who starved to death after it wrongly stopped his out-of-work benefits. The […]

Claimant deaths still linked to systemic flaws in benefits system, DWP document shows

By John Pring on 26th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Claimant deaths still linked to systemic flaws in benefits system, DWP document shows
Listen

Scores of deaths of claimants in the last three years have been linked to persistent, systemic flaws in the way benefits are managed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), an official document has shown. The DWP document, released to […]

Disabled man’s body found six months after DWP cut off his benefits

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled man’s body found six months after DWP cut off his benefits
Listen

The body of a disabled man was discovered by police officers in his derelict home six months after his benefits were cut off by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), a report has revealed. In circumstances similar to those of […]

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 6
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

On the left of the image are multiple heads of different colours - white, aqua, red, light brown, and dark green - all grouped together, then the words ‘Join our campaign for a decent life for Disabled people. Campaign for Disability Justice’
Image of front cover of The Department, showing a crinkled memo with the words 'Restricted - Policy. The Department. How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence. John Pring.' Next to the image is a red box with the following words in white: 'A very interesting book... a very important contribution to this whole debate' - Sir Stephen Timms, minister for social security and disability. plutobooks.com and the Pluto Press logo.

Access

Latest Stories

Whately appears to agree social security spending is not spiralling after all… as Tories plan £36 billion-a-year cuts

Shadow minister says parents don’t ‘game’ SEND system… but Kemi says disabled adults do ‘game’ the benefits system

Level boarding pledge in government strategy is welcomed, but railways bill amendments are still vital

DWP silent after Tory member of PIP review publishes report demanding child disability benefits are slashed

Access failures at Tory conference leave wheelchair-user suspended in mid-air for more than an hour

Ministers’ decision to slash accessible housing targets was ‘unprincipled’, but Timms says they were right

Greens sideline disabled people at annual conference

National accessibility standards are crucial for addressing transport barriers, Tories hear at conference

Tories discriminate against disabled editor by blocking DNS from receiving key information at conference

Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech

Readspeaker
Image of front cover of The Department, showing a crinkled memo with the words 'Restricted - Policy. The Department. How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence. John Pring.' Next to the image is a red box with the following words in white: 'A very interesting book... a very important contribution to this whole debate' - Sir Stephen Timms, minister for social security and disability. plutobooks.com and the Pluto Press logo.

Footer

The International Standard Serial Number for Disability News Service is: ISSN 2398-8924

  • Accessibility Statement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Threads
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2026 Disability News Service

Site development by A Bright Clear Web