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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 Conservative peer was commissioned to examine how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dealt with reports of claimant ...
A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of ...
Comments by the disability minister have fuelled concerns that the government is planning changes that will cut the amount of ...
A “landmark” decision has forced a regulator to examine whether credit companies should be allowed to take disability ...
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 ...
The choices made by the UK state on how the social care system is structured mean that the impact of the pandemic in this area should be “ground zero” for the Covid inquiry’s investigations, ...