• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About DNS
  • Subscribe to DNS
  • Advertise with DNS
  • Support DNS
  • Contact DNS

Disability News Service

the country's only news agency specialising in disability issues

  • Home
  • Independent Living
    • Arts, Culture and Sport
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Housing
    • Transport
  • Activism & Campaigning
  • Benefits & Poverty
  • Politics
  • Human Rights
You are here: Home / Archives for Amber Rudd

Amber Rudd

Coffey has no Disability Confidence in her own scheme, DWP list suggests

By John Pring on 5th March 2020 Category: Employment

Coffey has no Disability Confidence in her own scheme, DWP list suggests
Listen

Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey appears to have failed to sign up to her own department’s flagship disability employment scheme, despite employing staff herself in her role as an MP. Coffey (pictured) has been in post since last September and […]

Tories refused to answer access questions in letter from their own equalities minister

By John Pring on 20th February 2020 Category: Politics

Tories refused to answer access questions in letter from their own equalities minister
Listen

Successive chairs of the Conservative party snubbed a request from their own equalities minister, after she asked them to explain how they intended to support more disabled people to become MPs and councillors. Penny Mordaunt (pictured) wrote last April to the […]

Months of PIP distress ‘hastened my brother’s death’

By John Pring on 3rd October 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Months of PIP distress ‘hastened my brother’s death’
Listen

The brother of a disabled man who was denied disability benefits when he was dying has launched a petition calling on the government to scrap the outsourcing of all face-to-face assessments to private contractors. James Oliver, from Hastings – the constituency […]

Disabled duo who lost out through universal credit set for third DWP court action

By John Pring on 8th August 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disabled duo who lost out through universal credit set for third DWP court action
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing another court action over the financial impact of universal credit on disabled people, which legal experts say is costing many claimants thousands of pounds a year. Two disabled people with high support […]

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording

By John Pring on 25th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MP suggests DWP lied over promise to introduce PIP assessment recording
Listen

An MP has suggested the government was “not telling us the truth” when it promised last year to allow all disabled people to record their personal independence payment (PIP) face-to-face assessments. The claim came in a week in which the Department […]

DWP decision to block DNS jobcentre invite is ‘extension of hostile environment’

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP decision to block DNS jobcentre invite is ‘extension of hostile environment’
Listen

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of an “appalling” attack on press freedom and disabled people’s rights after blocking a request by Disability News Service (DNS) to interview staff in one of its jobcentres. A leaked memo […]

Ministerial group on disability met just three times in a year, DWP admits

By John Pring on 11th July 2019 Category: Politics

Ministerial group on disability met just three times in a year, DWP admits
Listen

A cross-government group of ministers set up to drive forward action to tackle the barriers faced by disabled people has met just three times in more than a year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. The group of […]

DWP refuses to release secret benefit death report to mother of Jodey Whiting

By John Pring on 27th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP refuses to release secret benefit death report to mother of Jodey Whiting
Listen

A senior civil servant has refused to allow the mother of a woman who took her own life – after being repeatedly failed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) – to see a secret report into her daughter’s death. […]

Guards lock activists inside DWP HQ during universal credit ‘whitewash’ action

By John Pring on 20th June 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Guards lock activists inside DWP HQ during universal credit ‘whitewash’ action
Listen

Disabled activists were locked inside the Department for Work and Pensions’ headquarters by security guards as they delivered thousands of copies of a newspaper that feature “deliberately misleading” DWP adverts which “whitewash” the truth about universal credit. Protesters from Disabled People […]

DWP civil servant praises UN poverty report ministers dismissed as ‘barely believable’

By John Pring on 13th June 2019 Category: Human Rights

DWP civil servant praises UN poverty report ministers dismissed as ‘barely believable’
Listen

A senior Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) official has told MPs that a highly-critical UN report on poverty in the UK was “factually correct” and “made a lot of good points”, despite ministers repeatedly attacking its accuracy. Donna Ward, DWP’s […]

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Image shows a man wearing glasses sitting by an open laptop The text reads: Free Career Support for Disabled People Our services include: 1-2-1 Coaching Online Career Resources Find Support near you Search for Inclusive Jobs Career Events and Workshops Visit the Evenbreak Career Hive today to find out how we can help you

Access

Latest Stories

Government’s long-awaited accessible housing plan ‘does not go far enough’

Government’s advisers say ministers’ plans will not deliver an accessible railway

Thousands of disabled customers waiting months for cars, Motability admits

Commission ‘will hold government to account over pandemic failures’

Grenfell: Court challenge for Home Office over rejection of evacuation policy

More than half of care homes inspected are failing, says regulator

MPs’ silence on deaths evidence ‘shows they have abandoned benefit claimants’

Staff levels ‘completely inadequate’ for rail access, say government advisers

Watchdog threatens government with legal action over ‘unacceptable’ detentions

Benefit claimants back up MP’s claims of assessment secret tricks

Advice and Information

Readspeaker

Footer

The International Standard Serial Number for Disability News Service is: ISSN 2398-8924

  • Accessibility Statement
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site map
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2022 Disability News Service

Site development by A Bright Clear Web