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Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has angered activists after failing to express concern about safeguarding flaws at the heart of the universal credit system, including a suicide linked by a coroner to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Vicky […]
The government has failed to include any proposals to address the inequality faced by disabled people in its list of legislation that it plans to introduce over the next year. In what is likely to be the last king’s speech before […]
A wheelchair-user could easily have lost his life in front of hundreds of delegates to the Labour conference, after the party ignored years of safety warnings about the ramp used to access the speakers’ platform, say disabled activists. There was an […]
Labour has pledged to scrap Conservative plans to tighten the work capability assessment – reforms described by disabled activists as “cynical” and “horrendously dangerous” – if it wins power at the next election. Although Labour offered almost no information at its […]
Labour has finally admitted that it is not currently planning to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) into UK law if it wins power at the next general election. The admission was made by the […]
Labour has promised to govern by co-producing its policies with disabled people, if it wins the next general election. Following criticism of the party’s decision to leave out key disability rights policies from the report that will form the core of […]
Labour has broken its promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election, according to confidential party policy documents. The party was insisting until at least July this year that a Labour government […]
Labour has been accused of caving in to “powerful vested interests” after failing to include any reference to scrapping care charges in documents that will form the basis of the party’s next general election manifesto. One leading disabled people’s organisation said […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release a document that would show how its controversial plans to scrap the work capability assessment would impact disabled people. Despite releasing documents that estimate the impact of less controversial parts […]
The Labour party has raised concerns about government plans to scrap the work capability assessment and give new “fitness for work” powers to work coaches in jobcentres. Disabled activists and disabled people’s organisations have already said they believe the reforms would […]