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Disabled people who rely on powered equipment in their homes to survive have expressed serious concerns at the government’s failure to provide clear information about how they will be protected in the event of power blackouts this winter. Disability News Service […]
The “aggressive attitude” on benefit sanctions that was taken by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the coalition years of 2013 to 2015 is “back with a vengeance”, MPs have been warned. A debate on DWP’s policy on benefit […]
Disabled campaigners have expressed shock and anger after learning how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to help it prevent further deaths of benefit claimants. The plan was draw […]
The special educational needs and disability (SEND) system is “creaking and ripe for long-promised reform”, according to the annual report of the education watchdog Ofsted. Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of education, children’s services and skills, warned in her annual report […]
Union and Labour activists have expressed fresh fears that the party will fail to fight for the rights of disabled people if it wins power at the next general election. They spoke out at an online meeting, held by the TUC, […]
Disabled workers are earning significantly less on average than non-disabled people, and the gap has been widening, a TUC meeting heard this week. The event, held to mark UK Disability History Month, examined the extent of the “exclusion and devaluing” of […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has secretly abandoned work on a £106 million plan that was supposed to prevent suicides and other deaths of benefit claimants, learn from its mistakes, and deliver reform “for the most vulnerable in society”. […]
The new minister for disabled people failed to send a message of support on the UN’s international day of disabled people… although he did find time to publish a post about Small Business Saturday. The two events took place on the […]
Disabled campaigners were outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday (Wednesday) to highlight the “appalling discrimination” experienced by an estimated two million claimants who were denied a £20-a-week rise in their benefits during the pandemic. They spoke of the “heinous” failure […]
A cross-party committee of peers has defended its decision to ignore the crucial issue of care charges in a major “spotlight” report on adult social care in England. The report by the Lords adult social care committee focuses heavily on the needs […]