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The risk of UK government cuts to disability benefits widening the health gap between disabled and non-disabled people is “a clear worry”, according to one of the world’s leading experts on health inequalities. Professor Sir Michael Marmot was speaking to Disability […]
Disabled activists have warned that they could disrupt next summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with direct action protests, after councillors rejected calls to ask for the government’s unpopular “fitness for work” contractor to be dropped as a sponsor. SNP councillor Billy […]
Disabled people today are having to cope with problems that not even those who grew up in the segregated institutions of the 1950s and 1960s had to face, a leading disabled campaigner has told a conference. Phil Friend, chair of Disability […]
Disabled workers are being encouraged by the government to check that their employers have not been cheating them out of thousands of pounds. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) said today (1 November) that disabled workers were particularly at […]
A government welfare-to-work provider is being investigated over claims that it has been artificially inflating the number of jobs it has found for disabled people through the specialist Work Choice programme. Disability News Service (DNS) reported last week how Seetec was […]
The government contractor Atos Healthcare has denied that fresh delays to the introduction of the coalition’s new disability benefit are due to a serious shortage of doctors willing to carry out assessments. The new Conservative minister for disabled people, Mike Penning, […]
The country’s leading disabled “serial entrepreneur” has hit out at the disability community for failing to recognise his achievements in business comparing it to “a bucket full of crabs”. Neil Barnfather spoke out as he joined some of the country’s most […]
A rare victory over the coalition’s welfare reforms was under threat this week, as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tried to prove in court that its “fitness for work” test does not discriminate against some disabled people. DWP was […]
Disabled activists have reacted angrily to the government’s decision to plough ahead with tightening eligibility for its new mobility benefit, despite its plans receiving the backing of only a tiny minority in a public consultation. Only five individuals out of the […]
The broadcasting watchdog has refused to investigate a complaint that the Conservative party’s new slogan discriminates against disabled people. The party’s slogan, “For Hardworking People”, was plastered across the stage at the annual conference in Manchester earlier this month and featured […]