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The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent them criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proof that they cannot be trusted to speak up on behalf of disabled people, according to grassroots activists. Last week, […]
Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions secretary Esther McVey, official documents suggest. The charities, and other […]
The country’s largest disability charities have been accused of “selling out” disabled people, as they look set to play a significant role in providing back-to-work services under the government’s new Work and Health Programme. Disability News Service (DNS) has contacted seven […]
A minister partly responsible for the UK being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the UN disability convention has been branded “highly offensive” after announcing that her government would try to become a “world leader” on disability. Priti Patel […]
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its care homes, in a bid to cope with a budgetary black hole. Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) has told its award-winning, 14-strong […]
A disability charity has been accused of an “uncaring disregard” for the wellbeing of the disabled residents of one of its care homes, after giving them less than two months’ notice that they would be evicted. In late January Leonard Cheshire […]
Activists have attacked the decision to give nearly £300, 000 of national lottery funding to Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) to research disabled people’s history. They say the non-user-led charity is in no position to carry out such research, and fear the […]
A disability charity has been accused of hypocrisy and misleading the public, after its chief executive publicly backed the living wage for care staff, while continuing to pay her own employees just above the minimum wage. Claire Pelham, chief executive of […]