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New official figures appear to have borne out fears that misleading information used by the IT company Atos to win a disability assessment contract would lead to longer queues for disabled benefit claimants. Disability News Service (DNS) revealed last year that […]
Disgraced Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has sparked scorn and anger among disabled commentators in the UK, and accusations of hypocrisy, after he used his impairment as an excuse for killing his girlfriend. Pistorius was cleared of murder this week, but found […]
Disabled people have been urged to press their own local authorities to debate coalition plans to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF), after a council voted to demand a rethink, following a campaign led by disabled people. Councillors in Bristol voted […]
A local authority arranged for a disabled couple to move from their one-bedroom flat into a two-bedroom bungalow because they needed to sleep apart for health reasons, but then forced them to pay the “bedroom tax”. Croydon council moved Roy Langridge […]
This year’s UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) will examine the appalling treatment of veterans who became disabled after fighting in the First World War. UKDHM was set up to celebrate disabled people’s lives and explore the history of negative attitudes and […]
Campaigners have welcomed a government decision to postpone some of its planned reforms to disability-related higher education support. But there are still question-marks over the “face-saving” announcement by a Conservative minister, as some of the cuts will still go ahead as […]
The government has published a new plan that it hopes will see more disabled people achieving senior positions in the Civil Service. The Talent Action Plan includes measures designed to remove the “obstacles” which have limited the number of disabled people, […]
A mother has described how her disabled son was repeatedly locked in a so-called “safe room” by staff at his school as a punishment. The claims are the latest in a series of allegations concerning special and mainstream schools which have […]
Campaigners have reacted with a mixture of anger and bemusement to government figures that appear to show disabled people are more likely to be successful when claiming employment and support allowance (ESA) than the benefit it is replacing. The figures were […]
The care watchdog has admitted carrying out a flawed investigation into how a nursing assistant already suspended from work for alleged abuse of disabled people was able to work with a care agency for nearly a year. The recruitment agency in […]