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Campaigners have called for an inquiry into the deaths of parents driven to despair by the refusal of the Department for Work ...
A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in ...
Retail giant Marks and Spencer has agreed to pay compensation and make changes to at least one of its stores after installing ...
Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve ...
Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the ...
Hundreds of disabled people and allies have called on the prime minister to take “urgent” action to fix the crisis-ridden and “broken” Access to Work disability employment scheme. In a new open ...
A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases” linked to the ...
A Conservative peer was commissioned to examine how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dealt with reports of claimant ...
Comments by the disability minister have fuelled concerns that the government is planning changes that will cut the amount of workplace support disabled people can receive through the Access to ...
A “landmark” decision has forced a regulator to examine whether credit companies should be allowed to take disability benefits into account when calculating if disabled people can take out risky ...
Disabled campaigners have welcomed the government’s announcement that it will review the laws around powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters, and examine how new mobility technology could be ...