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An investigation into unlawful treatment of disabled benefit claimants will not accept evidence from individual disabled people or relatives of those who died through failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the equality watchdog has confirmed. The Equality and […]
The equality watchdog has finally launched a – limited – investigation into unlawful treatment by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of disabled benefit claimants, including some who died, five years after it was first told to act. The move […]
The equality watchdog has been accused of bowing to political pressure by failing to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to prevent further deaths of disabled benefit claimants, two years after promising to take legal action. It is now […]
The equality watchdog has been told to “come clean” over its failure to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account on deaths linked to benefit claims. It is now 20 months since the Equality and Human Rights Commission […]
A transport minister has failed to back calls for a new law that would address the multiple barriers faced by disabled passengers trying to access public transport. Guy Opperman was speaking to the Commons transport committee after a survey it commissioned […]
Disabled activists have welcomed an international body’s decision to consider downgrading the status of the UK’s much-criticised and “discriminatory” human rights watchdog. The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Baroness Falkner, decided to leak the information that its […]
The UK’s leading music festival operator has been forced to sign a legal agreement with the equality watchdog after serious access failings at events it ran both this summer and last year. Live Nation, which runs Festival Republic, has signed a […]
The human rights watchdog has struggled to explain why its major report on Britain’s “equality and human rights landscape” has ignored key breaches of disabled people’s rights by the UK government. The Equality and Human Rights Monitor report*, published today (Thursday), […]
The human rights watchdog has failed to follow through on threats to take legal action against the government over its efforts to cut the number of disabled people inappropriately detained in secure hospitals in England. The Equality and Human Rights Commission […]
New figures show that nearly three-quarters of all discrimination-related enquiries to the government-funded equality helpline have come from disabled people, with this proportion rising every year. The figures, obtained by Disability News Service through a freedom of information request, show that […]