Labour ministers considered the possibility of means-testing personal independence payment (PIP) last year, but then ruled ...
Disabled campaigners have dismissed a watchdog’s “misleading” new league table that claims to show the best performers in ...
The government has dismissed pleas by disabled peers for ministers to introduce a national strategy to address the “untenable ...
The Labour peer trying to steer the assisted suicide bill through the House of Lords has rejected attempts to remove ...
The much-anticipated disability rights plan for Wales has left it to the next Welsh government to come up with a strategy to ...
The government’s housing and regeneration agency has failed to explain why its new five-year strategy fails to mention ...
The Labour government has been accused of a “truly horrifying” betrayal of disabled people after slashing an accessible ...
Labour ministers considered the possibility of means-testing personal independence payment (PIP) last year, but then ruled out the option, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted. A ...
The Scottish and UK governments are both failing to uphold the rights of disabled people in key areas, according to an annual report by Scotland’s human rights watchdog. Two of the 10 areas of ...
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when claimants threaten to take their own lives, following secret reviews into as many as six suicides linked ...
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 two ...