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A drastic and discriminatory shortage of wheelchair-accessible taxis is causing disabled people to miss medical and dental appointments, education and work commitments, and social opportunities, disabled campaigners have warned. They believe plans by their local council to address the shortage will […]
Disabled campaigners have called on the government to set up a “genuinely independent” panel that would investigate deaths linked to the actions and failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They say that such a panel would expose the […]
A Conservative minister banned the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) from using the word “safeguarding”, despite DWP’s connection with countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants since 2010, MPs have been told. Labour’s new social security and disability minister, Sir Stephen […]
Ministers appear to be set to announce cuts to a flagship disability employment scheme, just as the government is trying to push more disabled people towards the workplace. Sir Stephen Timms (pictured), the social security and disability minister, told MPs yesterday […]
The minister for social security and disability has publicly attacked a book that exposed decades of “bureaucratic violence” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence was published […]
The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has sparked fresh anger after again publicly downplaying links between the deaths of disabled benefit claimants and her own department’s actions. Dr Gail Allsopp (pictured), who was appointed to the […]
A Labour MP has spoken of her own experience of suicide attempts and homelessness – and her mother’s imprisonment for killing an abusive partner – to warn of the risks the assisted suicide bill would pose to prisoners and homeless people. […]
A Liberal Democrat MP has warned that a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide would take England and Wales into “tiger country” and let “tigers out into the wild”. Sarah Olney (pictured) was speaking as she attempted to persuade members […]
A government report has provided crucial new evidence that links longer NHS waiting-lists with increases in the number of disabled people on benefits. The research shows that more than two-fifths (41 per cent) of disability benefit claimants are on a waiting-list […]
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall – along with three of her ministerial team – failed to sign up to her own department’s disability employment scheme, a government report has revealed. The latest version of a list of employers signed up […]