Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support were “ignored by design” during the pandemic. The inquiry heard on Monday that there were more than 43,000 deaths involving COVID-19 in care […]
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Cuts to disability benefits will exert pressure on services, and likely lead to more deaths, MPs are told
Ofcom has ‘failed millions of disabled people’ after clearing two TV shows that attacked benefit claimants
The broadcasting watchdog has failed millions of disabled people by clearing two television programmes of disability discrimination and causing offence, including one in which some young people on disability benefits were described as “parasites”. One disabled activist warned that Ofcom’s decisions […]