Disabled activists in the UK have backed a US campaign that will call on actor and film-maker George Clooney to step away from a movie adaptation of a memoir that treats disability as a “fate ...
The government’s long-awaited reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system are a missed opportunity to dismantle the barriers that continue to drive disabled young ...
The government’s “generational” reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will increase the ...
The government is freezing the budget of a scheme that funds “life-changing” adaptations to disabled people’s homes, despite a minister claiming he was “putting more money” into the programme.
The lack of accountability for the tens of thousands of Covid-related deaths of disabled people receiving care in their own ...
The government’s own social security advisers have warned a minister he may need to do more to “shift entrenched concerns” ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to say if the prime minister was wrong to suggest that disability benefits were being misused and exploited, after new official figures showed ...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has finally confirmed that his party would cut support for many claimants of disability benefits if it won power at the next general election, with the cuts focusing on ...
One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits appears to have admitted that it is standard practice – approved by the government – to ask claimants ...
A former DWP civil servant commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to review disability benefit assessments has publicly disagreed with government claims that the department does ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by ...
“Heartless” government reforms that will eventually scrap the “fitness for work” assessment “defy logic” and pose significant risks to sick and disabled people who cannot work, say activists who have ...