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The son of a disabled man who starved to death after his benefits were wrongly removed has said he believes the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must have known that his dad would die if his payments were cut off. […]
Disabled people are facing significant barriers to building careers in the music industry, according to new user-led research. The research* by Attitude is Everything found that nearly four-fifths (79 per cent) of Deaf and disabled people working in the music and […]
Disabled activists have called for an urgent investigation after new figures showed that deaths of disabled and older people receiving support at home from care agencies rose by nearly 50 per cent during the first 12 months of the pandemic. In […]
The equality and human rights watchdog has warned that social care is at “crisis point” and has called on the government to introduce a legal right to independent living, just 24 hours after Boris Johnson failed again to honour his promise […]
A partnership between Deaf people and British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters could be set to transform the future of interpreting across the UK. Leading Deaf figures are supporting a new co-operative that is developing an online platform that they hope will […]
Disabled campaigners have asked why a police officer who struck a black disabled teenager with his baton more than 30 times in just a minute – after she had flagged down his car to ask for help – is not facing […]
The government has agreed to launch a year-long review into the protection and support available to disabled people who are abused by their carers. The review will examine the protections and support currently available, and the barriers to access to justice, […]
The Football Association (FA) has become the latest organisation to discriminate against disabled people taking part in a government programme of events that is testing how post-lockdown crowds can safely return to sports and cultural venues. At least two of the […]
A disabled woman has described how the government and its contractors failed to make any allowance for her impairment and treated her like a prisoner during her stay in a “managed quarantine hotel”. Because she was placed in an unsuitably small […]
A programme of events testing how crowds can safely return to venues was thrown into confusion this week as the government and event organisers disagreed with each other on whether “clinically extremely vulnerable” (CEV) people are banned from attending. At least […]