Jan 23, 2025 · Disabled campaigners have reacted with despair and exasperation to the government’s “deeply disappointing” announcement that it is delaying long-term reform of the adult social care system in England. Instead of announcing immediate plans for long-term reform, health and social care secretary ...

16 hours ago · The government has finally ordered research into the reasons behind what it claims is a “spiralling” increase in the number of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits. The pledge to identify the “characteristics and drivers of rising levels of …

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.

16 hours ago · The responses of disabled people who answered a question about the likely impact of expected government cuts to disability benefits have revealed a worrying level of “fear and desperation”, say campaigners. They were responding to a question posed on social media by Inclusion Barnet’s ...

16 hours ago · Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of destitution. The disabled women’s organisation WinVisible told the Commons work and pensions committee in an open letter ...

16 hours ago · A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of policy at Disability Rights UK (DR UK), told MPs on a committee examining the terminally ill adults ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The number of disabled people waiting for a decision on their Access to Work (AtW) claim has continued to rise, six months after the government insisted it had improved the system and was hiring extra staff.

Jan 23, 2025 · More than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially through controversial reforms to the disability benefit assessment system, government figures suggest. The Department for Wo…

Jan 16, 2025 · Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive governments over the last 20 years have abandoned its ambitious goals. The 20 th anniversary of the report – which placed independent ...

Jan 23, 2025 · The high court in London has this week heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham consultation” to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four years.