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A leading disabled peer has delivered her most outspoken attack yet on the government’s austerity programme, in a direct challenge to the new minister for disabled people. Baroness [Jane] Campbell was chairing a meeting of the all party parliamentary disability group, […]
The new minister for disabled people has used his first appearance in front of a cross-party disability group to continue the government’s assault on supposed benefit “fraud” and “abuse”. Addressing a packed meeting of the all party parliamentary disability group, Mike […]
A “hugely important” new £1.5 million disability arts programme has been launched at the Tate Modern art gallery in London. The three-year Unlimited 2013 programme will see work commissioned from disabled artists based in England and Scotland, and follows on from […]
A nurse working for one of the two outsourcing giants assessing disabled people for the new personal independence payment (PIP) has told how its testing programme has been hit by huge delays, IT problems… and a staff rebellion. The whistleblower, Laura*, […]
Delays to the roll-out of the government’s new disability benefit are even worse than previously feared, mounting evidence suggests. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported that a disabled teenager had been left for months without his benefits, apparently because of […]
Disabled people will be at the heart of a £5 million, lottery-funded programme to research the state of independent living and come up with “practical improvements to disabled people’s lives across the UK”. The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) launched the five-year […]
The government is to limit the total amount spent every year on social security, including key disability benefits such as employment and support allowance (ESA) and disability living allowance (DLA). The Conservative chancellor, George Osborne, confirmed today (Thursday) in his autumn […]
The UK’s biggest charity for blind people is launching a “major realignment” of its priorities, putting more money into supporting people who have just been diagnosed with sight loss. The new long-term strategy will demand far more from the charity’s commercial […]
The design of the notorious “fitness for work” test has been geared to ensure that only a certain proportion of disabled people qualify for out-of-work disability benefits, new research by a leading disabled campaigner suggests. Blogger Kaliya Franklin has been researching […]
MPs have warned the government that it must do more to address the barriers faced by disabled bus-users. The Commons transport select committee issued the warning as it published the government’s response to its inquiry into access to public transport for […]