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The chancellor has been accused of missing an opportunity to solve the social care funding crisis, despite announcing measures that could see funding rise by up to £3.5 billion a year by 2020. Announcing the results of the spending review, which […]
The government appears to have committed to funding two new measures aimed at tackling the shortage of accessible housing for disabled and older people. Announcing the results of the spending review, which detail the government’s spending plans until the next general […]
Social services and health professionals failed to launch a child protection inquiry into a mother who went on to kill her three disabled children despite a series of concerns that were raised about her behaviour. A serious case review commissioned by […]
The government is refusing to release figures that would reveal how many disabled people have had their packages of employment support cut after being reassessed. Disability News Service (DNS) lodged a freedom of information request in September, asking the Department for […]
Government austerity cuts have meant that many local authorities have scrapped the vital role of specialist access officers to save money in the short term, even though it is eventually likely to cost them more, peers have heard. The Equality Act […]
The government is making it harder for disabled politicians to stand for elected office by failing to renew a fund that paid for their disability-related campaign expenses, according to a candidate in next month’s parliamentary by-election. Simeon Hart (pictured), who is […]
Governments in the UK – and abroad – are showing “a clear lack of appreciation and respect” for disabled people’s organisations by ignoring their views and advice when developing new policies, according to a leading disabled campaigner. Miro Griffiths (pictured) was […]
Disabled activists say government-funded research, which concludes that the programme to reassess people on incapacity benefit through the work capability assessment (WCA) was linked to 590 suicides in just three years, is both “damning” and “timely”. Campaigners, doctors and psychiatrists have […]
The Department of Health, doctors’ and nurses’ unions and the contractors paid to carry out the assessments have refused to pledge to take any action following new research linking the government’s “fitness for work” test with about 600 suicides. The study […]
Football has “failed disabled people”, and its troubled world governing body must now place disability at the heart of its reform process, according to a leading UK campaigner. The Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFÉ) has written to the […]