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Advice services provided by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are under significant financial threat, despite a surge in demand for the support they provide, new research has shown. More than nine in 10 (93 per cent) of the DPOs who took part […]
Disabled campaigners have questioned the government’s decision to appoint a senior rail executive as one of its new disability and access ambassadors. Alison Smith, the accessibility and inclusion lead for the Great British Railways Transition Team, who previously had a similar […]
Labour’s refusal to introduce “genuine” emergency evacuation plans for disabled people is an insult to those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower disaster, say disabled campaigners. The government quietly published its response this week to a consultation that ended […]
Young disabled people – including those with significant mental ill-health – will lose their benefits if they do not accept offers of education or employment, according to previously unpublished comments made by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall. The comments, made […]
Disabled activists have pledged to continue the fight against the legalisation of assisted suicide, despite MPs voting comfortably in favour of a bill that would allow it to be introduced in England and Wales. The vote, by 330 MPs in favour […]
A strong majority of disabled MPs voted against legalising assisted suicide on Friday, despite Kim Leadbeater’s private members’ bill easily passing to the next stage of the parliamentary process that could lead to it becoming law. Analysis of the voting records […]
A left-wing national newspaper has backed a veteran columnist who claimed that “millions” of disabled people were dishonestly claiming out-of-work disability benefits. The column came just three days before a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on disability benefits was described by disabled […]
A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty. The film for Channel 4’s Dispatches, presented by Fraser […]
Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide. More than 160 MPs had told the […]
The decision of MPs to vote in favour of legalising assisted suicide will make it harder to find the time and resources to campaign on many other crucial disability rights issues over the next six months, disabled activists have warned. Many […]