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Disabled activists and allies will hold a silent vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday to mark the latest stage in the fight for a second inquest into the death of Jodey Whiting. Joy Dove, Jodey’s mother, has been […]
Disabled campaigners have expressed shock and anger after learning how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to help it prevent further deaths of benefit claimants. The plan was draw […]
A disabled campaigner has described in a new book how her fight to highlight the countless deaths caused by the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), including the suicide of her own daughter, has changed her life. Joy […]
The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life when her benefits were wrongly stopped has described how she cried “tears of joy” after being told she had won another chance to seek a second inquest into her daughter’s […]
The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to make a second attempt to secure permission to appeal against a high court ruling. Joy Dove is fighting to secure a second […]
The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to seek permission to appeal against a court’s ruling that there should not be a second inquest into her daughter’s death. Joy Dove […]
Three judges have rejected a mother’s bid to secure a second inquest into the death of her disabled daughter – who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped – despite one of the judges criticising the “shocking” failures in the […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has told a court that the death of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were removed was not part of a widespread “systemic” problem, despite years of evidence to […]
A high court judge has asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it did not take the “common sense” step of phoning a disabled woman with a long history of mental distress – who later took her own life […]
Fresh evidence shows that the actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were a “central cause” of the death of a disabled women who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly removed, the high court heard this […]