Activists ask why a Labour government is ‘gleefully’ backing Tory plans to tighten work capability assessment Disabled activists have questioned […]
Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits The high court in London has this week […]
MPs join activists and families in call for public inquiry into years of DWP deaths MPs have joined disabled activists […]
Labour’s watered-down policy on high-rise evacuation ‘is insult to disabled people who died in Grenfell fire’ Labour’s refusal to introduce […]
Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists A Channel 4 documentary […]
Disabled activists pledge to continue to fight assisted suicide bill, after MPs vote in favour Disabled activists have pledged to […]
Vigil outside high court for case against consultation on WCA changes Time: 9am Date: Tuesday 10 December 2024 Place: outside […]
Disabled Labour MP uses memorial lecture to push government to implement UN disability convention A disabled Labour MP has vowed […]
Anger and concern over government’s ‘hand-me-down’ employment white paper Disabled people and their organisations have pointed to “fundamental” and “very […]
DWP must take urgent safety steps on large payments, says coroner after suicide, five years on from earlier inquest warning […]
Concern over Kendall’s ‘truly chilling’ assisted suicide comment Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is at the centre of controversy […]
DWP hides historic ‘fitness for work’ papers from National Archives The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stopped sending […]
MPs reopen inquiry into DWP safeguarding failures that led to countless deaths Relatives of disabled people whose deaths were caused […]
Kendall compares DWP deaths to Mid Staffs hospital scandal, as she opens door to new ‘safeguarding duty’ Labour’s new work […]
DWP finally admits ordering more than 30 secret reviews into universal credit harm and deaths last year The Department for […]
DWP denies destroying documents that would have shown why it weakened rules on secret suicide reviews The Department for Work […]
DWP’s treatment of disabled people under Tories was ‘terrible and inexcusable crime’, says MP The way the Department for Work […]
Call for hate crime law reform, as broadcaster says young people too sick to work are ‘parasites’ A right-wing broadcaster […]
DWP ordered to disclose key documents about “dehumanising” plans to reform Work Capability Assessment During a hearing about the “rushed […]
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