the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues
The government is facing accusations of a cover-up after refusing to release a report that examined the quality of personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, following a sub-standard test linked to the death or serious harm suffered by a disabled claimant. The […]
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has backed calls to incorporate the UN disability convention into law and to introduce a right to independent living for disabled people… but only in Wales. Her party has long resisted both policies, and today (Thursday) the […]
All but one of the largest parties fighting for seats in Senedd elections next month have pledged to incorporate the UN disability convention into Welsh law, with just Reform UK refusing to back the major step forward for disability rights in […]
Disabled customers have called on Motability to pause a “discriminatory” scheme that monitors how they drive, until it is accurate and fit for purpose. They say the design of the Drive Smart scheme – which now applies to all under-30s and […]
A Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people. Charlie Proctor, from Dorset, sent a legal letter to the Treasury […]
An “absolutely awful” mobile phone app that helps the Motability scheme monitor the driving behaviour of increasing numbers of disabled people is securing overwhelmingly poor reviews from its customers. The Drive Smart scheme, which launched last August, allows Motability Operations to […]
Coroners across England and Wales have been asked to do more to question the role of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the deaths of benefit claimants before they carry out inquests. The call came as senior coroners were […]
The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms. A disabled-led network of organisations has written to mental health minister Baroness Merron, […]
Disabled campaigners are set to meet with the CEO of Motability Operations, after calling out how the programme of proposed changes to the scheme will profoundly impact disabled people’s lives. In a letter sent to Motability Operations CEO Andrew Miller on […]
Transport Accessibility campaigners have warned that the Labour government’s new integrated transport strategy “doesn’t deal with the real issue” and needs to demonstrate more than “warm words”. The Department for Transport (DfT) published the new strategy on 2 April. Originally promised […]