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The performance of police forces across the country in providing justice for victims of disability hate crime is not good enough and must improve, the organisation representing senior police officers has finally admitted. The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) admitted its […]
NHS bodies have this week been unable to point to any evidence that plans have been drawn up to protect people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes, in the event of power blackouts this winter. It […]
New figures have revealed the steadily-worsening state of adult social care, and how disabled people are increasingly reporting concerns about the quality and safety of services, seven weeks after the government last had a minister for social care in post. As […]
Campaigners have questioned why Conservative ministers and MPs rejected a proposal that would have forced the government to take “reasonable steps” towards making all rail stations in England accessible to disabled people. The proposed amendment to the government’s levelling-up and regeneration […]
The new minister for disabled people has deleted a social media post in which she bragged about the millions of pounds being spent on her department’s new disability employment website. Claire Coutinho posted a tweet last week which included a video […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published figures that show how many universal credit claimants are being found “fit for work” through the work capability assessment process. They show that DWP is consistently finding more disabled people claiming […]
By Tom McDonough A protest outside York council has been hailed as an important step in disabled people’s year-long fight against the decision to ban blue badge-holders from their city centre. Reverse the Ban, a coalition of disabled-led organisations and allies, […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of deputy prime minister Therese Coffey, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. […]
Government departments and power companies have been unable to show any detailed preparations they have made to protect people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes, and which could be affected by blackouts this winter. Neither the […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by months of failures by universal credit advisers and jobcentres. A legal […]