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Disabled people from across the UK converged on parliament yesterday to challenge their MPs in face-to-face meetings about ...
The Welsh government has been accused of putting up a “smokescreen” after publishing a draft disability rights plan that ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has unlawfully failed to respond to a request to see a secret paper on the ...
More than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” ...
Most employers had no contact with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the previous year, according to new DWP ...
Disabled peers have told a committee of MPs that they face a “daily fight” just to be able to do their job, because of their ...
A disabled woman has accused Mind of discrimination after an internal investigation recommended that the mental health charity make multiple improvements to how it treats staff protected by the ...
The Labour government has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs. Leaked ...
Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has refused to apologise after repeatedly misleading MPs by suggesting that her ...
Parliament has refused to criticise a security officer who confiscated a book about benefit deaths because it was “too ...
A report from MPs today calls on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to introduce a new legal duty for it to safeguard ...
Two terminally-ill disabled women are to lodge a complaint with the United Nations that the passage of a private members’ ...