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The government’s public health agency has refused to warn local NHS and council bodies that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. Last week, Public Health England (PHE) published the latest […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been planning for years to move more benefits onto the hugely-troubled IT platform that hosts universal credit, documents released through freedom of information requests appear to show. DWP deposited a substantial number of […]
The UN expert investigating the government’s record on eradicating poverty has described how he has heard “pretty horrendous” evidence from disabled people while conducting a 12-day factfinding visit to the UK. Professor Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty […]
The rail regulator has revealed a series of draft measures designed to force the industry to improve the assistance it provides to disabled passengers. Many of the proposals suggested by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) yesterday (Wednesday) aim to […]
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding the government makes major changes to a bill that campaigners say would make it easier for many disabled people to be deprived of their freedom. The Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) only […]
Charging disabled people for their care and support is driving many of them into debt and forcing them to cut their spending on food or heating, according to new research by a network of disabled people’s organisations and their allies. The […]
A disabled woman is challenging the government’s failure to ensure that she can vote secretly and independently in elections. The high court has granted permission for the case being brought against the Cabinet Office by Rachael Andrews to proceed to a […]
An activist whose local authority warns disabled people that it could take up to 12 weeks to renew their blue parking badges is calling for disabled people in other parts of the country to pass on their experiences of problems and […]
A police force has been criticised for failing to treat an attack on a disabled woman – who was spat at and left covered with flour by a group of teenagers as she sat on a park bench – as a […]
Work and pensions ministers have received a humiliating dressing-down from the Commons speaker after their “unacceptable” failure to provide an accessible version of vital new universal credit papers to a disabled shadow minister. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had […]