Disability News Service

A disabled campaigner is hoping to launch a legal action against government COVID rules that force residents of care homes to isolate for two weeks every time they attend a medical appointment or visit a shop. Doug Paulley has also told managers […]

The high court has given two disabled campaigners permission to challenge the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its failure to offer recipients of so-called legacy benefits the same £20-a-week increase given to those on universal credit. The court will now […]

NHS England has refused to respond to calls for a halt to the use of a mental health scheme branded unethical, unlawful and unsafe by disabled activists, despite at least one NHS trust and a police force promising to review its use. […]

The Labour party has refused to explain why a major speech by its shadow social care minister ignored disabled-led proposals for fundamental reform – including free social care – that were backed by her own leader during his election campaign. Sir Keir […]

Disabled feminists have criticised a court ruling that found it would be lawful for a care worker to enable a young disabled man to pay for time with a sex worker. The Court of Protection has concluded that a care worker would […]

The equality and human rights watchdog appears to have backed away from holding a wide-ranging statutory inquiry into links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) confirmed […]

Disabled activists are calling for an immediate halt to the use of a multi-agency scheme that they believe is unethical, unlawful and unsafe, and which they say puts people in severe mental distress at risk of being denied vital support. Under the […]

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to launch an “invaluable” and “long-overdue” inquiry into whether the social care system breaches equality and human rights laws. The formal statutory inquiry will examine the system of assessing needs and making decisions on […]

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, and […]

Millions of people with energy-limiting chronic illness (ELCI) are being failed by both employers and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), according to a new user-led report. The study found that the flaws within the disability benefits system create a “a […]

Disabled people have often been treated as “an afterthought” throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to a leading disabled academic. Professor Tom Shakespeare told a webinar on Tuesday that disabled people had been disproportionately affected in multiple ways, including the disruption to day-to-day […]

The Football Association (FA) has become the latest organisation to discriminate against disabled people taking part in a government programme of events that is testing how post-lockdown crowds can safely return to sports and cultural venues.  At least two of the events […]

The prime minister’s office has admitted that it made no attempt to ensure that a new £2.6 million Downing Street media briefing room would be accessible to disabled people. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last month that the platform in the room […]

A disabled woman has described how the government and its contractors failed to make any allowance for her impairment and treated her like a prisoner during her stay in a “managed quarantine hotel”. Because she was placed in an unsuitably small room, […]

A programme of events testing how crowds can safely return to venues was thrown into confusion this week as the government and event organisers disagreed with each other on whether “clinically extremely vulnerable” (CEV) people are banned from attending. At least two […]

Disabled activists and allies are meeting today (Thursday) to plan how to generate a “groundswell” of support for a national independent living service that would be available free of charge to anyone in England who needs it. The online meeting, organised by […]

The government’s record on disability employment has come under fierce attack during a parliamentary meeting. MPs and peers on the all-party parliamentary group on disability heard from experts from business, academia and the disability movement on Tuesday on the employment proposals they […]

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people in England may have “slipped through the net” and missed out on vital support in securing food, medicines and basic care in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by MPs. […]

A controversial British outsourcing company has admitted forcing disabled patients to share non-emergency ambulances throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. G4S insists that it is following NHS guidance, which says that two patients can be carried together in an ambulance if neither of them […]

Disabled activists have raised concerns that a local authority has granted planning permission for a new supported living housing development for people with learning difficulties that will be built on a site contaminated with toxic materials. The site, part of a six-metre-deep […]