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Disabled campaigners have warned the government that it is too soon, and too dangerous, to resume face-to-face assessments for disability benefit claimants. They spoke out after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced this week that face-to-face work capability assessments […]
The minister for disabled people has refused to apologise for as many as 24 breaches of disabled people’s rights – and probably even more – by the government in the 12 months since the first COVID-19 lockdown. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) […]
Disabled activists have warned of the “chilling” impact on disabled workers of the government’s decision to end shielding from the end of this month. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last week began sending letters to those on the […]
The Scottish government is facing fresh calls to investigate why so many disabled people have died during the pandemic, after new figures showed for the first time that they accounted for nearly three-fifths of all deaths involving COVID-19 in Scotland. The […]
A disabled people’s organisation is hoping that its community journalism project will help amplify the voices of disabled people and empower them to tell their own stories. The Camden Disabled People’s Voices project is training disabled people as community journalists, who […]
The government’s continuing failure to address the harm caused to disabled people during the pandemic has led to “anxiety and hardship” and a “continuing bleak picture of marginalisation”, according to user-led research. In a new report, Inclusion London says that “loss […]
The government’s failure to prepare for disabled people needing to shield from a pandemic meant they had to develop a shielding scheme from scratch at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the spending watchdog has found. In a new report, the […]
Urgent action is needed to “rectify the harm caused to disabled people” during the COVID-19 crisis and to learn lessons for subsequent waves of the virus, and other future pandemics, researchers have warned. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and the […]
A hospital trust is facing legal action after it refused permission to a disabled nurse to bring her assistance dog with her to an outpatient appointment during the pandemic. Wheelchair-user Bethann Siviter was visiting Birmingham City Hospital last August, but she […]
A disabled peer is calling on other disabled people seen as clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) to coronavirus to “be proactive” and ask their GPs to vaccinate them and their personal assistants, following the publication of new government guidance. The advice from […]