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A government contractor appears to have used “incorrect and potentially misleading” information to win disability assessment contracts worth nearly £400 million, according to a committee of MPs. The public accounts committee used evidence provided by Disability News Service (DNS) to make […]
The government’s implementation of its new disability benefit has been “a fiasco”, according to a hard-hitting report by a committee of MPs. The public accounts committee said the introduction of personal independence payment (PIP) had led to “long and unacceptable” delays, […]
Experts commissioned by the equality watchdog have told Disability News Service (DNS) that it is possible to assess the overall impact of coalition spending cuts on disabled people, despite ministers repeatedly claiming such a project would be impossible. Disabled activists and […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been using figures that downplay the economic benefits of the Access to Work scheme, while pretending to rely on other figures that paint a more positive picture. Disability organisations – and government ministers […]
The government’s “fitness for work” contractor has refused to provide any evidence to back up controversial claims made by three of its executives in an evidence session with MPs. The three Atos executives were giving evidence to a Commons work and […]
A Welsh user-led organisation is aiming to become the first in the UK to set up a co-operative that will allow disabled people to pool their support funding and secure greater independence and control over their lives. Disability Wales has won […]
Some of the disabled people who currently use the Independent Living Fund (ILF) could be “adversely affected” by its closure, the minister for disabled people has admitted. But Mike Penning told fellow MPs that he believed passing ILF funding from the […]
A disabled couple who have spent four decades campaigning to persuade the public to be more accepting of difference have both been recognised with OBEs in the Queen’s birthday honours. Penny and Arthur Dean, from Stockport, have been involved with the […]
Two former government advisors have spoken of how they hope their new MBEs will boost their work campaigning for disabled people’s rights. Both Clenton Farquharson and Miro Griffiths are former members of Equality 2025, the government’s now-defunct, high-level network of disabled […]
A disabled entrepreneur recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours is hoping that the honour could help to persuade disabled children that there is an “exciting and thrilling” future ahead of them. Neil Barnfather, who receives an MBE, said it was assumed […]