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There has been “continued regression” in disabled people’s rights in the five years since a UN committee told the UK government that its cuts and reforms had caused a “human catastrophe”, according to a new report by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). […]
A local authority is referring disabled people to debt collection agencies more than 3,000 times a year for failing to pay adult social care charges, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed. Birmingham City Council (BCC) passed on […]
Disabled leaders have told MPs that there needs to be a fundamental overhaul of the “hostile”, “harmful” and “traumatic” system that assesses disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. Members of the Commons work and pensions committee heard that the work […]
A disabled peer has called on disabled people and their organisations to pressure MPs to back proposals on social care charging that could make a real difference to the life chances of younger people who rely on care and support. Baroness […]
More than 40 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have signed a letter to the justice secretary to ask why he waited until 12 days before the end of a consultation on the Human Rights Act to publish an “easy read” version. The […]
Tens of thousands of disabled people across the country are having debt collection action taken against them every year by their local authorities over unpaid care charges, information secured by disabled campaigners has revealed. Cheshire Disabled People Against Cuts (CDPAC) and […]
Disabled campaigners have called on the government to tear up its “fundamentally broken” National Disability Strategy, after the high court ruled that the much-criticised document was unlawful. The high court found that a botched consultation had made it “impossible” for disabled […]
Labour has failed to explain how it would respond to the independent living crisis and calls for an end to care charging if it won power, despite its leader announcing a new “five-point plan for the transformation of social care”. Keir […]
The UK government failed to ensure that serious faults exposed by an accessibility audit were fixed in time for the start of the Glasgow COP26 climate change conference, an official document released to Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. The access […]
Disabled people’s organisations are calling on the government to take urgent action to protect people in England who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, and those who cannot be vaccinated against the virus for medical reasons. Disability Rights UK and Inclusion London […]