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The Charity Commission has launched a second inquiry into a disabled people’s organisation (DPO) over “serious concerns” about the way it is being run. Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living (LCIL) was already being investigated over its failure to meet its statutory […]
A legal case being heard this week highlights how disabled children who can be physically aggressive because of their impairment are currently being failed by equality laws, say inclusive education campaigners. The upper tribunal this week heard the appeal brought by […]
A court has ruled that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith (pictured) was “unreasonable”, “irrational” and acted “unlawfully” by delaying payments of his new disability benefit to two disabled people. The high court said the delays of up to 13 […]
A court has heard how a disabled woman struggled to afford to feed herself and heat her home because of delays with her claim for the government’s new disability benefit. Lawyers representing the woman, known as Ms C, and another disabled […]
The government has announced a further delay to its proposals to restrict the funding that helps disabled students attend university, days after two young people won permission to challenge its plans in the courts. Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation […]
Two disabled people who spent months waiting to be assessed for the new disability benefit have secured the chance to take legal action against the government over the delays they and thousands of others have faced. Lawyers have been granted permission […]