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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) […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]