Disabled campaigners are hoping a new government taskforce will lead to apprenticeships becoming more accessible to disabled people, despite concerns […]
  A pioneering programme backed by £5 million of lottery cash has issued a call for user-led teams across the […]
Two disabled peers have criticised ministers for refusing to collect figures that would demonstrate the impact of a key element […]
A report by peers on the impact of equality legislation on disabled people appears to have secured its first success, […]
The new work and pensions secretary has suggested the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap will face lengthy […]
The new work and pensions secretary has sent out mixed signals on whether he wants to make further cuts to […]
  By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 5th May 2016 Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal […]
  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking […]
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty […]
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 […]
Government claims that welfare reforms are necessary, disregards the inevitable deaths they created, writes researcher Mo Stewart By: Mo Stewart […]
Benefits claimants are subjected to an ‘amateurish, secret penal system which is more severe than the mainstream judicial system’, writes […]
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 […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on […]
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
By John Pring Disability News Service Friday 25th September 2015 The chief coroner of England and Wales has refused to […]
Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if […]
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