By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly found “fit for work” has pledged to continue her campaign for justice, and for the Department for Work and Pensions … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability benefits were sanctioned has praised a disabled activist who confronted work and pensions secretary Esther McVey about her daughter’s death … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new Work and Health Programme must promise to “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” of work and pensions … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over its failure to reopen a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version of the UK government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, prompting calls by disabled activists for the UK government to follow … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging blow, after it admitted that none of the bodies it set up to engage with disabled people and their organisations … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if airlines are discriminating against disabled people by refusing to allow them to make simple alterations to tickets bought for their … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears to discriminate against many disabled people who want to take their assistance dogs with them on commercial flights. Guidance issued … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13 NHS primary care organisations to warn them about discriminatory policies that could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be scrapped completely, according to disabled campaigners. They … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made by a committee of MPs that were aimed at improving disabled people’s access to the built environment. The women and … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay back as much as £150 million owed to disabled people as a result of botched efforts to move them onto … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy – which was aimed at “improving the lives of disabled people” – and abandoned any idea of replacing it. The Department … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for hosting a conference on “choice at the end of life” that was little more than a “love fest for euthanasia”. … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach to providing legal advice to people who need help with discrimination and special educational needs (SEN) cases, after ministers abandoned … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the government’s “discriminatory” cap on Access to Work (AtW) payments in the high court, in the latest legal challenge to the … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability car scheme by calling for the organisation that runs it to use part of its huge financial reserves to increase … Continue reading →
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to punish nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists who write dishonest benefit assessment reports. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) is looking at concerns … Continue reading →