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The Conservative party is refusing to say who has been appointed to lead a “landmark” review of disability benefits or to provide any details of how they will engage with disabled people, more than three weeks after it was launched. Shadow […]
Disabled members of Your Party, the troubled new grassroots socialist party, are hoping a commission will develop a series of disability policies based on the “real life experience” of “normal, day-to-day people”. Your Party, which has been hit by in-fighting and […]
Two major broadcasters have been unable to explain why key news presenters are failing to challenge politicians and commentators who repeatedly claim – wrongly – that spending on social security is out of control and needs to be cut. Presenters at […]
Disabled activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to appoint former work and pensions secretary James Purnell as his new chief of staff. Purnell, who was Labour’s work and pensions secretary for 16 months, from January 2008 […]
Three new pieces of research published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have cast fresh doubt on whether ministers will be able to move more disabled people into work by providing them with more intensive employment support. The reports […]
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors, particularly on disabled people’s universal credit claims, three years after new “quality assurance” checks were introduced Reports obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) analyse whether DWP staff […]
Ministers have launched “important” new guidance on setting up “inclusion bases” in mainstream schools after their own research exposed how many of those already running were having a “significant” negative impact on some disabled pupils. Inclusion bases are set to play […]
The failure of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the department’s safeguarding leads, a secret report has revealed. The […]
A senior figure in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) loudly “joked” about disability equality and reasonable adjustments as he waited to give evidence to a committee of MPs, Disability News Service can reveal. The incident has raised fresh concerns […]
The former civil servant leading a commission on adult social care in England has told MPs she is examining the impact of scrapping home care charges but also suggested she is unlikely to call for it to be introduced immediately. Baroness […]