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Disabled artists have described how they have used creativity to resist the violence of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and to remember its victims. The online Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence event this week was part of Healing […]
A new disabled-led exhibition aims to challenge perceptions of people with learning difficulties by highlighting the role they play in their local communities. The Through Our Eyes exhibition by All Wales People First (AWPF) tells the stories of people with learning […]
An Autumn Statement that has provided “distracting crumbs” of funding will not be enough to address the impact of 12 years of austerity that has stripped away support from disabled people, campaigners and activists warned this week. The response from disabled […]
Six train companies are discriminating against disabled passengers at nearly 300 rail stations across the south-east of England, according to new research. The research shows that c2c (which runs between London and Southend), Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), […]
Working-age people with both a hearing and visual impairment in England were nearly 12 times more likely to die due to Covid during the pandemic than people of the same age without such impairments, “shocking” new official figures have shown. The […]
A disabled woman who fled a violent relationship says she was left without any income after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refused to ease demands placed on her by its “abusive” universal credit system, and then stopped her payments. […]
A disabled woman has described how she was repeatedly denied permission to communicate with her work coach by telephone, thanks to the “barbarian” benefits systems run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Alana Cooper, from Preston, is one of […]
A whistleblower has spoken of her horror after learning how a disabled woman took her own life following pressure from the universal credit system, a few weeks after she warned such tragedies could happen. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) reported […]
The disability charity Scope has been forced to apologise after facing accusations that its new annual awards ceremony excluded disabled people of colour, as well as those who are clinically vulnerable to Covid. The charity has also been criticised for refusing […]
The failure of the membership of the House of Lords to reflect the lived experience of disabled people is “infecting” the process of making policy, according to a disabled peer. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin, a Conservative peer, told fellow members of the […]