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Labour’s shadow health secretary has talked again about his vision for a fully integrated health and social care system, but without providing any details of how this would be achieved. Andy Burnham told a receptive audience at the party’s annual conference […]
Two groups of activists helped ensure that the voices of disabled people were heard by MPs and shadow ministers during this week’s Labour party conference. In contrast to previous party conferences, where fringe meetings have usually been dominated by charity lobbyists, […]
A shadow minister has pledged that a Labour government would do more to help disabled people into work, but warned that changes to the system of employment support would have to be “incremental”. Her comments and those of other shadow ministers […]
The Labour party has been told by its own activists that it must do much more to make its own policies and procedures accessible, after a string of access failures at its annual party conference. Disabled party members described problems with […]
Labour has chosen just three new disabled candidates to fight seats at the next general election, but is still refusing to accept it has a problem with selecting disabled people to run for elected office, conference delegates have heard. A fringe […]
A Liberal Democrat government would strengthen the equality watchdog, reverse some of the coalition’s attacks on equality law and toughen hate crime laws, according to a new policy paper. Among other key policies on equality, the paper says the party would […]
The government has produced a low-key report that summarises progress on its disability strategy, Fulfilling Potential. New documents published today (Thursday) aim to bring the strategy up-to-date and “show the progress that’s been made” across areas such as accessible information, improving […]
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been ridiculed for delivering a major speech about his sweeping welfare reforms, without mentioning the disastrous impact that many of the changes are having on disabled people. Duncan Smith spoke of how the […]
A work and pensions minister has been caught giving misleading information to the government’s own benefits advice body about the possibility of assessing the overall impact on disabled people of its sweeping welfare cuts and reforms. Lord Freud, minister for welfare […]
Disabled peers have spoken out to oppose – but also support – a new bill that would legalise assisted suicide for some terminally-ill people. The House of Lords heard from 133 peers during a marathon debate, with roughly half of them […]