The government has again been accused of sending out misleading and confusing information about its disability living allowance (DLA) cuts and reforms, after a senior civil servant apparently contradicted the minister for disabled people. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) at a Department […]
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Motability ‘shifting the goalposts’ with new foreign driver rules
Disabled people could soon find it almost impossible to use foreign personal assistants (PAs) to drive their Motability vehicles, because of strict new rules on driving licences. Motability says that foreign drivers without a UK driving licence can now only be […]
Anger at prime minister’s misleading defence of ‘bedroom tax’
The prime minister has caused anger among many disabled people by giving MPs a misleading account of his government’s new “bedroom tax”. David Cameron claimed at this week’s prime minister’s questions that “people with severely disabled children” and “people who need […]
Higher limit for elected office fund is ‘fantastic opportunity’
Deaf and disabled people seeking elected office have welcomed new rules that have doubled the potential financial support they can claim from a government fund. The £2.6 million fund helps to meet the additional costs faced by disabled people seeking election, […]
Workplace violence research ‘shows need for social model’
Disabled employees are more than twice as likely to be attacked and injured at work as non-disabled members of staff, according to researchers. Disabled members of staff experienced higher rates of 21 different types of ill-treatment at work – including persistent […]
Pioneering abuse study has people with learning difficulties at its heart
Ground-breaking new research has underlined the need for greater access to counselling for people with learning difficulties who have been abused. The three-year, lottery-funded project was the first research into the abuse of people with learning difficulties to be carried out […]
Disabled peer’s victory over EHRC’s ‘critical’ general duty
A disabled peer has won a major parliamentary victory after defeating government plans to restrict the remit of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The government wants to remove section three of the Equality Act 2006, the EHRC’s “general duty”, […]
Government ‘manipulated’ DLA figures to try to justify cuts
The government has been accused by MPs of “manipulating” its own benefit statistics in a bid to justify scrapping working-age disability living allowance (DLA). The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claimed that the number of DLA claimants was increasing, but […]
Councillor who made ‘depraved’ comments will not face hate crime probe
A local councillor who appalled a user-led organisation by suggesting that disabled children should be “put down” because they cost too much to support will not face a police investigation. Colin Brewer made the comments to a Disability Cornwall manager at […]
Children at third special school were locked in ‘safe rooms’
The government has again refused to investigate how many special schools are shutting disabled children in “safe rooms” as a punishment, after a head teacher was banned from teaching for leaving children locked in a “time out room”. A Teaching Agency […]