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A new user-led campaign has issued a controversial call to replace out-of-work disability benefits with a new system that recognises that many sick and disabled people cannot find work because of their “reduced productivity”. The Dead Parrot campaign is the latest […]
MPs have been asked to defend an annual pay-rise of 1.3 per cent, at a time when disabled people will see their benefits frozen for a year. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has announced that all MPs will receive a […]
User-led and disabled people’s organisations hold the key to fighting back against the government’s long-term assault on the welfare state, according to a leading disabled academic. In his new book, All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy, Professor Peter Beresford argues […]
One of the disabled campaigners whose “bedroom tax” cases were heard in the Supreme Court this week has spoken of his “contempt” for ministers who have forced them to spend years fighting for their rights through the legal system. Paul Rutherford […]
The government is likely to face legal action if it pushes ahead with plans to cut the out-of-work disability benefits of hundreds of thousands of claimants by £1, 500 a year, say disabled activists. The warning came as Conservative MPs overturned […]
A Paralympic star jailed for punching a homophobic thug who was threatening him and his gay friends has spoken of his prison nightmare, and how he has been handed a fresh start and a possible return to international competition. George Fletcher […]
Disability News Service (DNS) will this week ask a tribunal to require the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish information about secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of 49 benefit claimants. DNS has been trying since August […]
The care watchdog’s decision to ask a discredited US outsourcing giant to manage its disabled expert advisers has led to confusion, cutbacks and a stream of resignations, Disability News Service (DNS) has been told. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) decided earlier […]
Campaigners have cast doubt on Twitter’s commitment to protecting disabled people from vile disablist abuse on its social media platform. They spoke out after the media giant launched its new Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which it claimed would help “ensure […]
Ministers and senior civil servants are refusing to say if they approved documents drawn up following the suicides of two disabled men that were connected to flaws in the government’s “fitness for work” test. Last week, the Department for Work and […]