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The information commissioner has told the Treasury it can continue to hide information that would show how measures in a controversial spring budget were predicted to affect disabled people and other groups protected by the Equality Act. Disability News Service (DNS) […]
The new chair of the body that advises the government on accessible transport has questioned whether it is right to release research that exposes the discrimination faced by disabled passengers. There were hopes that the appointment of wheelchair-user Matthew Campbell-Hill would lead […]
Six disability campaigners have delivered scathing criticism of the government’s controversial new disability benefits reforms, in evidence to a committee of MPs. The representatives of three disabled people’s organisations and two disability charities joined a Conservative disabled peer in delivering an […]
A disabled Conservative peer has told MPs that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “stuck in a time warp” and has a “culture of low aspiration”. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin (pictured) said he believed DWP treated disabled people “as maybe […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been warned by the information commissioner for “systemically failing to comply with the law” over how it has dealt with requests for information on disability benefits, universal credit and claimant deaths. The Information […]
Disabled campaigners have criticised a review of standards in the Metropolitan police for failing to conclude that the force is institutionally disablist, and then refusing to explain that decision. Baroness Casey’s review of the force’s culture and standards found one in […]
Disabled activists have raised fears that they may not be asked to give evidence in public at a high-profile Commons inquiry into legalising assisted suicide. The health and social care committee began taking oral evidence this week, hearing from four peers […]
Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]
Evidence is mounting that government plans to reform the disability benefits system are fatally flawed. Last week’s Transforming Support white paper appears to be slowly unravelling, with a growing number of serious concerns being raised by disabled activists, politicians, charities and […]
The appeal court has ordered a second inquest into a disabled woman’s suicide so that the “consequences” of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopping the benefits of disabled people who rely on social security can be examined in public. […]