More than 1,000 venues and an estimated 10,000 people took part in the second annual Disabled Access Day, according to […]
Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled […]
  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking […]
Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights […]
The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns […]
The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year […]
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its […]
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty […]
Disabled campaigners are calling for the resignation of the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner, the disabled Tory peer Lord [Chris] Holmes, […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has proposed scrapping two benefit regulations that offer vital protection to disabled people […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has drawn up secret plans for sweeping reforms that would make it far […]
BBC Question Time, Grimsby, Thursday 22nd October 2015 LINK TO FULL SEGMENT [Scroll to 35 minutes 35 seconds into the […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party […]
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims.
Disabled Michael O'Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work
Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if […]
  Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’  By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people […]
The doctors’ union has finally agreed to tell every GP in the country about two regulations that campaigners believe could protect disabled people facing the controversial “fitness for work” test
  Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg: […]
  PUBLISHED in LETTERS 19/04/2012 11:18 PM  End inhumane WCA assessments We, the undersigned, fully support the decision made by Paul […]
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