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Official documents link two former Conservative work and pensions ministers – including would-be party leader Penny Mordaunt – to a government cover-up of how a disabled man took his own life after being wrongly found fit for work. The email and […]
A cross-government group of ministers set up to “encourage and stimulate progress” towards the inclusion of disabled people in society met just three times before it was scrapped, the government has been forced to admit. Information released by the Department for […]
MPs have shied away from banning the use of Taser stun guns in psychiatric wards. The ban was proposed by the human rights campaign group Black Mental Health UK, and taken on by the Liberal Democrat MP and former care services […]
The minister for disabled people is facing accusations that he misled parliament over the level of support for the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mark Harper told MPs this week that he had “talked to disability organisations […]