the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues
Horrified disabled activists have called for answers from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it revealed how a staff member accidentally tipped off an abuser that their victim was seeking domestic violence support. The DWP agent appears to have […]
A disabled Labour MP has vowed to push her government to implement the UN disability convention into UK law, as she delivered a lecture set up to remember a much-admired activist. Marsha de Cordova, the MP for Battersea, was delivering the […]
Friends and fellow activists have paid tribute to the “mighty”, “formidable” and much-loved Ruth Bashall, who has died at the age of 71. She leaves a commitment to the women’s movement stretching back half a century, and to fighting for the […]
The government has agreed to launch a year-long review into the protection and support available to disabled people who are abused by their carers. The review will examine the protections and support currently available, and the barriers to access to justice, […]
Campaigners are seeking “urgent” support for their attempt to increase the rights of disabled survivors of domestic abuse through new government legislation. They say time is running out to secure support in the House of Lords for two key amendments to […]
Campaigners are pushing the government to make key changes to its domestic violence bill so that it provides disabled people with “crucial” new protections from abusive carers and care workers, and new social security rights for survivors of abuse. They are […]
Social services, police and other agencies could probably have saved the life of a disabled man who was exploited by “friends”, if they had worked together and shared information about his ordeal, says a leading disabled campaigner. In the months leading […]