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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide of a young woman who had told her work coach that she intended to kill herself. Documents […]
The government has been accused of a “totally reprehensible failure” after its new Disability Unit failed to make a single announcement in more than three months, while more than 20,000 disabled people were dying from COVID-19. The unit was set up […]
The social media platform Twitter has refused to explain why it left horrific examples of disability hate on its website for more than two weeks. Messages calling for disabled children to be murdered, “putting the weak to sleep” and stating that […]
The family of a man who starved to death after his out-of-work disability benefits were wrongly removed have won the right to have the safeguarding policies of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) examined by the high court. The family of […]
MPs and peers have been told of the “heart-breaking” discrimination faced by disabled students in universities across the country, and how this has grown even worse during the pandemic. Disabled students lined up to deliver testimony about their experiences of discrimination, […]
A company that bragged of being a Disability Confident “Leader” under the government’s discredited employment scheme sacked more than 50 disabled staff when it fell into administration, and then hired mostly non-disabled agency staff to replace them. The workers were employed […]
A disabled campaigner has painted a stark picture of the psychological and financial impact of the system of charging for care and support services, as he gave evidence to a committee of MPs. Kevin Caulfield told the Commons health and social […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the contracts of three discredited outsourcing giants blamed for much of the discrimination and failings within the disability benefit assessment system. DWP had been planning to start a contract procurement exercise for […]
Disabled people have experienced social isolation, cuts to support, and problems accessing food, medicine and information during the pandemic crisis, according to a new survey of hundreds of disabled people. Comments made by disabled people who took part in the survey […]
A group of academics have called on the government to launch an immediate inquiry into why so many disabled people have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. The call came in a new report by Oxford University’s Disability Law and Policy Project […]