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A public transport provider breached access laws by refusing to allow a wheelchair-user to board one of its buses, and then lied about its driver’s actions. Accessible transport campaigner Doug Paulley is taking legal action against Stagecoach after he was refused […]
Scottish criminal justice agencies have rejected pleas to investigate the failure of two ministers to improve the safety of the government’s “fitness for work” test, despite evidence that their actions caused the deaths of at least three benefit claimants. Police Scotland […]
The parents of a disabled man who took his own life after being wrongly found “fit for work” have backed attempts to persuade Scottish police to investigate the actions of former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith. David and Maureen […]
Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for work” test a failure which may have caused “countless deaths”. Disabled activist […]