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The number of disabled people on the main out-of-work disability benefit who are being sanctioned by the government for failing to meet strict conditions has fallen close to zero, following years of criticism of the harsh regime. Department for Work and […]
The performance of one of the government’s disability benefit assessment contractors has worsened over the last year and has remained well outside a government target it has never met, new figures have revealed. They show that the proportion of personal independence […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been failing to track recommendations made by its own secret reviews into benefit-related deaths, it has told the spending watchdog, three years after claiming it had corrected the same failings. The “appalling” revelation […]
Disabled campaigners have welcomed the human rights watchdog’s decision to begin legal action against the government over its repeated failure to address the “distressing and horrific” treatment of people with learning difficulties and autistic people in mental health hospitals. The Equality […]
A coroner who heard the inquest into a man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed has been urged to act on information showing the government failed to pass her evidence linking its actions with other deaths. The […]
The MP leading the race to be Labour’s next leader has become the first candidate to back calls by disabled people’s groups for the introduction of free social care, funded by national progressive taxation. Sir Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, […]
A disabled student has been left “isolated” and “segregated” by her university’s failure to make her lectures accessible to her. Sarah-Marie Da Silva, a first-year zoology student and a wheelchair-user, has been trying since her first day on the course to […]
The human rights watchdog has launched an inquiry into how schools are monitoring the use of restraint on their pupils. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry will discover whether primary, secondary and special schools in England and Wales are […]
Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy has backed calls for an independent inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and has pledged to fight for “truth and justice” on behalf of those who died. One of four […]
One of the front-runners to be Labour’s next leader has pledged to work in partnership with disabled people to develop party policy, if she wins the contest. Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary and seen as the leading candidate for those […]