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Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite ...
Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ ...
Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the ...
Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support ...
Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if ...
Only one in four inspections of local services for disabled children in England last year concluded that they usually lead to ...
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 ...
The Labour government has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs. Leaked ...
Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the UK government’s multiple failures to ensure the accessibility of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. The first concerns came ...
The equality watchdog has been accused of bowing to political pressure by failing to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to prevent further deaths of disabled benefit claimants, two years ...
The head of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed evidence from scores of his own employees that his department is experiencing a “staffing crisis” and a “mental ill-health epidemic ...
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and others have raised serious concerns about suggestions that ministers want to cut future spending on disability benefits and merge personal independence ...