Disability News Service

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has finally confirmed that his party would cut support for many claimants of disability benefits if it won power at the next general election, with the cuts focusing on those he claims do not “genuinely deserve help”. […]

UN human rights experts have told the UK government they are “dismayed” at the actions of its ministers and what appear to be “discriminatory and unjustified” reforms to disability benefits. It is the third letter from UN human rights experts in just […]

Campaigners calling for government action on disability hate crime were horrified when their posts on social media led to a string of racist and disablist responses, some of them from disabled people. The responses to the Inclusion London campaign posts appear to […]

The disability minister is facing further questions over his commitment to transparency after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refused to release the names of his new advisers on work and disability benefits, or even the organisations they represent. Five “collaboration […]

Disabled activists and allies who fought off rail industry plans to shut hundreds of ticket offices across England two years ago say they fear train companies are quietly finding new ways to push through closures. They spoke out this week after criticism […]

The Conservative party has again refused to explain why it is warning of a “spiralling” benefits bill when spending on social security is stable… and has been for years. For the second time in two months, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch (pictured) has […]

Disabled union activists have appealed successfully to the TUC to support their fight against the government’s continuing attacks on disability benefits. Two motions opposing Labour’s cuts and calling for campaign support from the TUC and its general council were passed unanimously at […]

Housing policies announced by the Labour government in its first year in power will have a “quite negligible” impact on improving accessibility and addressing disabled people’s housing needs, a disability rights campaigner has told MPs. Mikey Erhardt (pictured), policy lead for Disability […]

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has “shamefully” failed to keep a record of how it responded to a secret report that called for it to reduce suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases”. The report was written by […]

The minister who leads on disability for the Treasury has shown “contempt” for disabled people by skipping all three meetings of a ministerial group set up to “champion disability inclusion” across the new Labour government, according to a campaign network. The meetings […]

The broadcasting watchdog has been told it is normalising the abuse of disabled people, after its “unacceptable” refusal to investigate a commentator who suggested the best way to cut disability benefit claimant numbers was to starve or shoot them. Ofcom decided the […]

Disabled people’s organisations have expressed shock and alarm at the disability minister’s “completely unacceptable” decision to impose gagging orders on members of his new “independent” advisory panel. The panel, led by disabled campaigner Zara Todd, will advise Sir Stephen Timms and the […]

UN experts are still planning to deliver findings on Labour’s attacks on disabled people’s rights, even though a public examination of the UK government had to be abandoned because of a funding crisis fuelled by US president Donald Trump. The committee on […]

A rail company’s actions have underlined continuing concerns about the government’s commitment to an accessible rail network, after a disabled campaigner’s legal bid finally forced it to improve access at six rural stations. Doug Paulley, who brought the case against government-owned Northern […]

For more than 16 years, Disability News Service has broken important stories about the discrimination disabled people face every day across the UK. Now DNS is looking for new subscribers to help fund its work holding the new Labour government to account […]

Campaigners have called for an inquiry into the deaths of parents driven to despair by the refusal of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to correct errors in child support demands. They believe DWP figures show that the death rates of […]

Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve the accessibility of the rail network for millions of disabled passengers. They say their 10-point plan will restore accessibility to the heart of […]

Hundreds of disabled people and allies have called on the prime minister to take “urgent” action to fix the crisis-ridden and “broken” Access to Work disability employment scheme. In a new open letter, Access to Work Collective says disabled people who rely […]

Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the significant harm he caused, after he was finally struck off by a tribunal. For years, Chris Fry (pictured), from Sheffield, took on discrimination cases […]

A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in England to be rated as “inadequate” over its adult social care responsibilities. A report by the Care Quality Commission […]