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The equality and human rights watchdog failed to consult its board, or its disabled advisers, before deciding to delay an inquiry into the government’s work capability assessment and its links with the deaths of benefit claimants, new documents have revealed. The […]
Disabled people who have been shielding from coronavirus since March are expressing significant doubts about government advice that says that – from Saturday (1 August) – they will no longer need to do so. The government announced on 22 June that […]
Further research showing how many disabled people have died during the later stages of the coronavirus pandemic is not likely to be published until October, according to a government department. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) finally produced figures on 19 […]
The equality and human rights watchdog is facing pressure to launch an inquiry into how the UK government breached the rights of disabled people in at least 17 different ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]
New research by Disability News Service (DNS) shows how the UK government has breached the rights of disabled people in at least 17 different ways during the coronavirus pandemic. From restricting their rights in its emergency Coronavirus Act, to failing to […]
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed three years of funding that will help move people with learning difficulties and autistic people out of mental health hospitals and into homes in the community. The £62 million (£20 million this […]
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 […]
The government is refusing to release documents that would show the expected impact on disabled people of the legislation and policies it produced in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In May, Disability News Service (DNS) asked the Cabinet Office to release […]
Disabled people’s organisations have demanded an inquiry into the reasons behind the disproportionately high number of deaths of disabled people during the pandemic, following the publication of “shocking” and long-overdue official figures. They have also called on the government to take […]
The government’s decision to further ease measures that have been protecting hundreds of thousands of disabled people from coronavirus since late March has left many of them “stunned and anxious”, say campaigners. The 2.2 million people currently described as “clinically extremely […]