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Disabled union activists have attacked the government’s demonisation of disabled people and its “disgraceful discriminatory language”, at a conference that began less than a day after prime minister Rishi Sunak finally announced the date of the general election. A series of […]
An investigation into unlawful treatment of disabled benefit claimants will not accept evidence from individual disabled people or relatives of those who died through failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the equality watchdog has confirmed. The Equality and […]
A Labour government would introduce a string of policies to reduce the disability employment gap and strengthen the rights of disabled people in the workplace, Labour’s shadow disability minister has told union activists. Vicky Foxcroft also told the TUC Disabled Workers’ […]
A disabled woman who sits on a social security tribunal has described how the incompetence and abusive actions of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have driven her repeatedly to the brink of suicide. Katherine*, who continues to sit on […]
The equality watchdog has finally launched a – limited – investigation into unlawful treatment by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of disabled benefit claimants, including some who died, five years after it was first told to act. The move […]
Disabled campaigners say they are “horrified” at a council’s lack of transparency after it refused to release documents that would have revealed details of its agreement with a consultancy it is paying to help cut people’s care packages. Bristol City Council […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to say if the prime minister was wrong to suggest that disability benefits were being misused and exploited, after new official figures showed the level of fraud has fallen to zero. The […]
A disabled peer ran out of time during a Lords debate as she attempted to describe all the barriers disabled people face in their daily lives. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson (pictured) told fellow peers that there was not enough time to describe […]
The government has “fallen short” on its promise to halve the number of people with learning difficulties* and autistic people detained in mental health hospitals, a committee of MPs has warned. The number of autistic people in such settings is even […]
A disabled MP has warned that the introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) across England has too often had a damaging impact on disabled people’s independence. Labour’s Marsha de Cordova told a parliamentary debate this week that many disabled people have […]