Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving […]
Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used […]
A traumatised child abuse victim has branded the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “shameful” for trying to force him […]
Friday 20th May 2016 Addressing the TUC Disabled Worker’s Conference at Transport House in London today Shadow Chancellor of the […]
In a Debate after the Queens speech Deidre Brock MP said the following at 8.58; https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-05-18/debates/16051856000002/DebateOnTheAddress#contribution-16051881000088 “Let me offer […]
The government may have abandoned its target to halve the disability employment gap, according to a leading disabled people’s organisation. […]
A string of user-led organisations have warned that the government’s “horrifying” plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace […]
The computer system used for new personal independence payment (PIP) claims has crashed twice in a week, just days after […]
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely […]
The new chair of the equality watchdog has taken up his new post, despite question-marks over potential conflicts of interest […]
COMMENT:Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants