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The government has refused to clarify comments by the prime minister which suggested that all claimants of long-term sickness benefits will be expected to look for work under Labour’s social securi…
7h ago
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DWP apologises to autistic man after work coach threatens to stick pins in his eyes
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An autistic man was left stunned after a jobcentre work coach threatened to stick pins in his eyes, or at least poke them with a Biro, and then said she had doled out similar treatment to autistic …
on Fri, 5AM
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DWP minister dodges question on Kendall’s ‘exclusionary’ decision to sideline disabled people
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A minister has failed to explain why his boss set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single representative of a disabled people’s organisation (DPO). Sir St…
on Tue, 10AM
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Silence again from Labour ministers on accessible housing, despite new announcements
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Labour ministers have again failed to make any commitment to toughening standards on accessible homes, despite announcing a string of new housing measures at their annual party conference. Deputy p…
on Tue, 10AM
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Kendall ignores question on why she shared platform with company linked to DWP deaths
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has ignored a question on why she shared a platform at her party’s annual conference with an outsourcing giant linked to the deaths of disabled benefit claim…
on Tue, 10AM
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‘We want a full-time minister for disabled people’, Labour conference meeting is told
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Disabled campaigners say they want more than a “part-time minister” for disabled people under the new Labour government. A fringe meeting at Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool heard of c…
on Tue, 10AM
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Disabled activists say Labour’s plans to means-test winter fuel payments will leave many current recipients having to decide “whether to starve or freeze”, after the government admitted that 1.6 mi…
on Tue, 10AM
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Streeting dodges care charges question for four minutes and 25 seconds
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Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has refused to say when the new Labour government will address the care charging crisis that is leading disabled people to face unlawful discriminatio…
on Tue, 10AM
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Disabled MP’s passionate call for action over ‘scandal of locked settings’
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A disabled Labour MP has delivered a passionate call for action over the number of autistic people and people with learning difficulties who are “imprisoned” in inpatient mental health units. Jen C…
on Tue, 10AM
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Co-production ‘will not be possible without funding from government’
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The leading disabled people’s organisation (DPO) in Wales has warned the Welsh and UK governments that co-production of policy with disabled people will not be possible if they fail to provide the …
on Tue, 10AM
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Labour has been accused of treating one of its own disabled delegates like a “third-class citizen”, after refusing to allow her to enter its party conference with her assistance dog. It is the late…
on Tue, 10AM
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Lib Dem conference: Rising star calls on their party to ‘walk the walk’ on disability
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A disabled rising star in the Liberal Democrats has spoken of their plans to ensure their party does more to draw on the creativity and unique contribution that disabled people can make to politics…
on Tue, 10AM
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Prime minister suggests all those on sickness benefits should look for work
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The prime minister has suggested that all claimants of long-term sickness benefits will be expected to look for work under his government’s plans to reform social security. Sir Keir Starmer made hi…
on Tue, 10AM
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Legalising assisted suicide is “the next great Liberal reform”, party members have been told, as the Liberal Democrats appear set to try to force through a change in the law in the coming months, d…
on Tue, 10AM
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One of parliament’s new disabled MPs has suggested that the government should consider criminalising disability discrimination, because of the difficulty disabled people face in enforcing the Equal…
on Tue, 10AM
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Lib Dem conference: Party ‘must campaign to save social care and NHS like our lives depend on it’
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The Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader has told her party to campaign to save social care and the NHS “like our lives depend on it”. Daisy Cooper told her party’s annual conference that good health a…
on Tue, 10AM
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A judge has ordered Network Rail to compensate an access campaigner who was abandoned in a waiting-area after booking assistance at a station known among disabled passengers for providing the count…
on Tue, 9AM
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The minister for social security has admitted there are serious safety concerns with universal credit, following coroners’ reports that linked the working-age benefits system with the suicides of t…
on Sat, 8PM
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Labour’s DWP fraud bill ‘will be recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice’
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Disabled campaigners have warned that plans to give the government sweeping powers to carry out financial surveillance on benefit claimants are “a recipe for abuse and miscarriages of justice”. Pri…
on Sep 27
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Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single repr…
on Sep 20
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Hospitals and other “priority customers” would not be protected from power cuts in the first days of an unplanned “national power outage”, according to new information from a secret government repo…
on Sep 18
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Disability justice project hopes to secure support across the country
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A disabled people’s organisation is hoping its new disability justice project will draw support from across the country and create change in both government policy and public attitudes, as well as …
on Sep 18
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Members of the London Assembly have unanimously backed a call for the mayor to take a “strategic” approach to improving the lives of disabled Londoners and appoint a new champion for disability equ…
on Sep 18
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Disabled campaigners call on government to take seven key steps in response to final Grenfell report
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the government to take seven key steps in response to the final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which they believe would lead to a “sea c…
on Sep 18
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DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five years, at a time when its policy decisions were causing countless deaths…
on Sep 18
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An “eye-opening” report has called for action to address the “inconsistent, unpredictable and sometimes inaccessible services” that disabled bus passengers have to put up with. The report is based …
on Sep 9
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Disabled activists and allies used negotiation and peaceful direct action to ensure that hundreds of copies of a book about decades of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “bureaucratic violence”…
on Sep 7
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Crowdfunder’s final push could see book on ‘violent’ DWP sent to politicians across the country
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Disabled activists are hoping a final push with their crowdfunding campaign will allow copies of a new book about the “violent” history of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to be sent to k…
on Aug 23
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Disabled tribunal member takes step towards legal action against DWP over years of ‘persecution’
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A disabled woman who sits on a social security tribunal is set to take legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for breaching the Human Rights Act, after years of “persecutio…
on Aug 9
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Protesters’ message to new government: ‘We are tired of being ignored on accessible housing’
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Scores of disabled people took their demand for the new Labour government to act on accessible housing to the gates of Downing Street on Monday. They say accessible housing is the “cornerstone of i…
on Aug 5
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Crowdfunder will pay for 400 books to educate every Labour MP on decades of DWP violence
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Disabled activists have launched a bid to raise enough funds to send every Labour MP a copy of a book that exposes the decades of “bureaucratic violence” at the heart of the Department for Work and…
on Aug 5
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Disabled people ‘back in the firing line’ on cuts after ‘hostile’ Reeves statement
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Disabled people are back “in the firing line” on spending cuts, activists have warned, following a trio of decisions announced by Labour’s new chancellor, Rachel Reeves, this week. Reeves told MPs …
on Aug 5
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A disabled man claims he was left with a broken ankle and two broken wrists after a bus company’s drivers repeatedly failed to strap him into a wheelchair space properly over the course of two year…
on Aug 5
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The Labour-run Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has blocked the release of information that would show how often the “fitness for work” test has been linked to suicides and other deaths and h…
on Aug 5
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Network Rail apologises after failing to spend £65 million put aside to improve access at stations
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Network Rail has today apologised after admitting that it failed to spend £65 million of funding allocated to improving access at rail stations. The admission came after Disability News Service (DN…
on Aug 3
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Disabled people across England are continuing to face unlawful discrimination and inequality on an “unparalleled” scale due to “unjust” social care charging policies, according to “deeply concernin…
on Aug 1
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Labour’s DWP set to continue with appeal linked to scrapping of ‘fit for work’ test
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to continue with an appeal against a watchdog’s decision that it should release vital information about plans to scrap the work capability assessme…
on Jul 29
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DWP claims missing stats on secret deaths investigations in annual report was just an error
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has claimed that the omission from its annual report of potentially damaging statistics about deaths linked to universal credit was just an error. The fig…
on Jul 26
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Comments by new work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, and her support for a controversial report, suggest she wants to increase pressure on disabled people to move off benefits and into work, wh…
on Jul 26
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A disabled campaigner helped to challenge the new government in the high court this week over the impact of accelerating climate change, and its commitment to co-producing policy with disabled peop…
on Jul 26
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First Covid inquiry report ‘shows criminally negligent’ attitude of previous governments
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The first report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has shown how successive governments displayed a “criminally negligent” attitude towards protecting disabled people and other groups at risk from pandemi…
on Jul 26
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Disabled people’s organisations call on government to ‘show you will be on our side’
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have vowed to be a “critical friend” to the new Labour government, but they have called for it to “show our community that you will be on our side”. DPO Forum…
on Jul 12
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Trio of new disabled MPs join House of Commons
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The new House of Commons looks set for a small increase in its disability representation, with at least three new disabled MPs winning seats in last week’s general election. Of the 650 MPs elected …
on Jul 12
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Campaigners welcome election defeats for DWP ministers, but frustration as key trio survive
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Campaigners have welcomed election defeats for a series of former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers, while also expressing disappointment that three of the most unpopular figures fro…
on Jul 12
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Report poses crucial questions for Labour government on whether to scrap work capability assessment
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A new report on the work capability assessment (WCA) has posed crucial questions for the new government on whether to scrap the test or improve it, just four days after Labour came to power in a la…
on Jul 12
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The new government has yet to announce who will be Labour’s minister for disabled people, but the decision not to appoint Vicky Foxcroft to the post has set back relations with significant parts of…
on Jul 12
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After six days in which disabled adults were ignored in a series of announcements from the new government, Labour’s work and pensions secretary has this morning launched an attack on the “unaccepta…
on Jul 12
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Every one of a sample of about 100 disabled people forced onto universal credit is now receiving less in benefits than when they were transferred from so-called legacy benefits, analysis of their c…
on Jul 3
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Some parties still failing on accessible manifestos
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Some of the main political parties fighting the general election have still not published accessible versions of their manifestos, with just a week to polling day. The worst offender is the right-w…
on Jun 30
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Election hustings candidates invent disability policies, days before general election
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A series of election candidates have been caught inventing party policy in front of an audience of disabled people, at a disability hustings event held just days before the general election. The ev…
on Jun 30