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Disabled people’s organisations are in danger of becoming “servants” of their local authorities, as the government encourages them to compete for the right to provide council services, a user-led forum has warned. North Tyneside Disability Forum (NTDF) is concerned that council […]
Disabled people have been hit disproportionately hard by the government’s welfare reforms, a new report published by the equality watchdog has confirmed. Experts commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) confirmed in the report that assessing the overall impact […]
A work and pensions minister has been caught giving misleading information to the government’s own benefits advice body about the possibility of assessing the overall impact on disabled people of its sweeping welfare cuts and reforms. Lord Freud, minister for welfare […]
One of the companies responsible for assessing disability benefit eligibility failed to make its own workplace accessible for a disabled employee for more than three years, and then sacked her when she became too ill to work. Sharon Dickens is the […]
Websites for five of the UK’s top airlines are still “difficult and frustrating” to use for their disabled customers, 11 years after they were found to be failing to meet minimum accessibility standards. The technology and disability charity AbilityNet published results […]
The UK’s biggest and richest football club has finally admitted that it has less than half the recommended number of spaces for wheelchair-users in its huge 76,000-capacity stadium. Manchester United hit the headlines earlier this month when the disabled peer Baroness […]
A disability charity has launched a year-long inquiry into the “financial penalty” disabled people are forced to pay on top of their everyday living costs. Nine commissioners will spend a year looking at why disabled people in England and Wales pay […]
A local authority has refused to comment on why an independent review it helped to commission into a day centre abuse scandal ignored a series of key issues. The serious case review (SCR) was only commissioned by Doncaster Safeguarding Adults Partnership […]
The government has backed down in a legal dispute with the disabled owners of two small businesses, over whether they had to file their VAT returns online. A tribunal ruled last year that forcing all VAT-registered businesses and sole traders to […]
The NHS trust at the centre of a day centre abuse scandal has denied ignoring whistleblowers who tried to raise concerns about poor standards – months before the regime was finally exposed. The abuse was eventually halted in March 2007 after […]