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Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human rights watchdog. Among the areas where governments have failed […]
A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at Disability Rights UK (DR UK), told […]
MPs pushing for the legalisation of assisted suicide have been warned by a disabled academic that protections in the proposed bill that are aimed at preventing disabled people being “coerced” into ending their own lives are “incredibly weak”. The Commons committee […]
The government has finally ordered research into the reasons behind what it claims is a “spiralling” increase in the number of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits. The pledge to identify the “characteristics and drivers of rising levels of inactivity and ill […]
The government must abandon its “watered-down” proposals for emergency evacuation of disabled people who live in high-rise residential buildings, say disabled people’s organisations. The government quietly announced the policy in December when responding to a consultation on Conservative plans that would […]
The responses of disabled people who answered a question about the likely impact of expected government cuts to disability benefits have revealed a worrying level of “fear and desperation”, say campaigners. They were responding to a question posed on social media […]
Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of destitution. The disabled women’s organisation WinVisible told the Commons work and pensions […]
Being in receipt of disability benefits has a significant positive impact on a disabled person’s wellbeing and level of “life satisfaction”, according to new research. Researchers said their conclusions showed that making disability benefits even harder to claim would be counter-productive, […]
Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) from giving evidence in person. The […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide. The research, commissioned in 2018, examined […]