TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Anger over DWP’s universal credit ad campaign
Disabled union activists have condemned the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and media managers…
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Direct action pledge after DWP pays tabloid to air-brush universal credit
Disabled activists are to target a tabloid newspaper with direct action after it signed an…
Protest Power Tour holds out hope for activists who can’t leave home
A group of grassroots campaigners have taken fellow disabled activists on a tour of the…
Research shows ‘dramatic postcode lottery’ in independent living support
Disabled people’s support to live independently in England is subject to a “dramatic” postcode lottery,…
DWP ‘hypocrite’ ministers refuse to be held to same safety standards as social media
Ministers have been branded “hypocrites” for rejecting the idea that the Department for Work and…
Tomlinson becomes latest ‘shoddy, shameless’ disability minister
Disabled activists have responded with resignation after the government appointed another “shoddy, shameless” minister for…
Number of disabled people in poverty rose by 200,000 in one year… says DWP
The number of disabled people living in poverty has risen by 200,000 in just one…
Six families back petition to MPs calling for inquiry into DWP benefit deaths
Relatives of six disabled people who died due to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…
Reaction to Rudd’s reforms: Tinkering, crumbs and fears of a Trojan horse for cuts
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about a series of reforms to the…
Tory conference police force admits sharing information on protesters with DWP
Disabled activists have demanded an inquiry after a police force that has patrolled four Conservative…