Disabled people’s organisations across the UK have suggested a range of ways in which they and their allies could fight back against the “deeply concerning” rise in hostile media coverage that is t…
13 Aug 2026
New figures have sparked “serious concern” about the failure of coroners across England and Wales to seek evidence from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following deaths of benefit claima…
13 Aug 2026
The health and safety watchdog has explained for the first time why it has never investigated the hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled benefit claimants linked to the Department …
13 Aug 2026
A new assessment regime for disability benefits that will reduce the influence of healthcare professionals and hand greater responsibility to civil servants is set to be rolled out across the count…
13 Aug 2026
Young disabled people are often “dismissed”, devalued and “minimised” by the disability movement in the UK and across Europe simply because of their age, according to a new book by a disabled acade…
13 Aug 2026
The Welsh government has raised “significant concerns” about the level of coproduction provided by the ongoing review of personal independence payment (PIP) and has called for an independent, disab…
13 Aug 2026
Disabled campaigners say the official advice for staying safe in a heatwave can put them in more danger.
11 Aug 2026
Stephen Magee says he used his old mobility scooter without any issues but his new one is not allowed.
07 Aug 2026
Horrified disabled activists have called for answers from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it revealed how a staff member accidentally tipped off an abuser that their victim was se…
06 Aug 2026
The former civil servant leading a commission on adult social care in England has refused to apologise after making “uninformed” and “harmful” comments in two radio interviews that fuelled hostilit…
06 Aug 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to publish details of multiple flaws within its universal credit working-age benefits system that led to deaths and serious harm to claima…
06 Aug 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over its commitment to the safety of benefit claimants after replacing its chief medical adviser with an expert in medicine for older …
06 Aug 2026
Disabled people’s organisations have imagined a future in which disabled people live in an “equitable” society with an AI-assisted economy that produces full employment, as part of government-funde…
06 Aug 2026
The Sunday Times has refused to apologise for a dehumanising column by television presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson, in which he compared disabled people who receive benefits to dogs. Clarks…
06 Aug 2026
...and the disabled kids locked out of holiday clubs
05 Aug 2026
Disabled people’s organisations have welcomed the new prime minister’s pledge that he will face the challenge of fixing the “broken” social care system “head on”, ending decades of “political drift…
30 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham has delivered a significant blow to attempts to legalise assisted suicide, after he called for the “fixing” of social care and palliative care funding before there was any debate on le…
30 Jul 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disabi…
30 Jul 2026
A financial regulator has been asked to investigate the conduct of the two companies responsible for Motability’s controversial Drive Smart programme, which caused panic and distress among many dis…
30 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on work and pensions reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks …
30 Jul 2026
Disabled people have told researchers that charging for social care is “unjust and harmful”, just as the new prime minister has spoken of his determination to address reform of the social care syst…
30 Jul 2026
Disability News Service (DNS) has been blocked by Conservative head office from receiving any of the party’s press releases or even submitting media requests. The move appears to have followed a se…
30 Jul 2026
Richard Douglas has a rare genetic condition and says finding somewhere to take a break in Northern Ireland has proved difficult.
23 Jul 2026
Andy Burnham looks set to make adult social care reform a centrepiece of his agenda, five years after suggesting that a free, personalised National Care Service could be funded through a 10 per cen…
23 Jul 2026
The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has dropped his first hints on how he plans to approach social security reform, while also pledging to “end rough sleeping”, in a speech outside 10 Downing Str…
23 Jul 2026
Several senior ministers who will play key roles in disability policy over the next few months have kept their jobs under new prime minister Andy Burnham. Burnham’s decision to keep Pat McFadden in…
23 Jul 2026
Disabled campaigners have welcomed Andy Burnham’s first major policy decision – to temporarily scrap VAT on electricity bills – but say he must do much more to address disability poverty. In his fi…
23 Jul 2026
Disabled peers have played a significant role in improving a government bill that should improve the experiences of disabled air passengers, but they have promised to keep pressuring the government…
23 Jul 2026
The Conservative party has dodged regulatory action on its repeated false claims that spending on social security is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has been…
23 Jul 2026
Actor Daneka Etchells is performing in a show which reflects her experiences of "medical gaslighting".
18 Jul 2026
The number of deaths of benefit claimants investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) through its system of secret reviews nearly doubled last year, according to figures hidden in DW…
16 Jul 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hid figures showing how many cases of death and serious harm of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants it had investigated, on the same day it publ…
16 Jul 2026
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised grave concerns about last week’s “less than honest” report from the Timms Review and have warned that it has “diluted” disabled people’s concerns …
16 Jul 2026
The minister leading the review into personal independence payment (PIP) has told fellow MPs that there “may well be reductions” in spending on the disability benefit after the government publishes…
16 Jul 2026
A “milestone” report by the care watchdog has found “systemic weaknesses” in the way some local authorities across England are delivering their adult social care duties. The Care Quality Commission…
16 Jul 2026
The government has laid out its next steps – and published new research – on addressing the pay discrimination faced by disabled workers and other oppressed groups. It is now two years since the ne…
16 Jul 2026
A newly-nationalised rail company desperately tried to settle three separate cases of discrimination taken against it by a disabled campaigner, just weeks after the firm was brought under state con…
16 Jul 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to correct figures in its annual report that hugely underestimate the number of disabled benefit claimants who had their claims closed as part…
16 Jul 2026
Architect Selwyn Goldsmith used Norwich as a test site for disability architecture.
13 Jul 2026
A minister says the review is looking at whether some claimants could be pointed to other kinds of help.
10 Jul 2026
Personal independence payment (PIP) is increasingly vital to disabled people to fill in the gaps caused by cuts to services, but there are “deep-rooted” problems with how it is delivered, an interi…
09 Jul 2026
A third major broadcaster has been unable to provide an explanation for why high-profile presenters are failing to challenge politicians and commentators who repeat the false claim that spending on…
09 Jul 2026
Tax changes announced by Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves last November will cost disabled people who lease a Motability* car more than £400 each on average, the company that runs the scheme has tol…
09 Jul 2026
Disabled peers have called on the government to ensure that an accessible rail system becomes a reality through its new railways bill, with no sign yet that ministers will listen to calls for a gre…
09 Jul 2026
Food insecurity* is a “widespread, severe, and systemic” issue for disabled people, with rising food costs a “significant” challenge, according to evidence submitted to an inquiry just as the gover…
09 Jul 2026
The Conservative party is refusing to say who has been appointed to lead a “landmark” review of disability benefits or to provide any details of how they will engage with disabled people, more than…
09 Jul 2026
Disabled members of Your Party, the troubled new grassroots socialist party, are hoping a commission will develop a series of disability policies based on the “real life experience” of “normal, day…
09 Jul 2026
Two major broadcasters have been unable to explain why key news presenters are failing to challenge politicians and commentators who repeatedly claim – wrongly – that spending on social security is…
02 Jul 2026
Disabled activists have expressed alarm at the decision by prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham to appoint former work and pensions secretary James Purnell as his new chief of staff. Purnell, who…
02 Jul 2026
Three new pieces of research published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have cast fresh doubt on whether ministers will be able to move more disabled people into work by providing them…
02 Jul 2026
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making thousands of potentially fatal errors, particularly on disabled people’s universal credit claims, three years after new “quality assurance” c…
02 Jul 2026
Ministers have launched “important” new guidance on setting up “inclusion bases” in mainstream schools after their own research exposed how many of those already running were having a “significant”…
02 Jul 2026
The failure of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants to return calls from disabled benefit claimants became a “consistent feature” of some of the most “tragic” cases examined by the…
02 Jul 2026
And was the character Mary Lennox, in The Secret Garden, actually autistic?
01 Jul 2026
A senior figure in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) loudly “joked” about disability equality and reasonable adjustments as he waited to give evidence to a committee of MPs, Disability New…
25 Jun 2026
The former civil servant leading a commission on adult social care in England has told MPs she is examining the impact of scrapping home care charges but also suggested she is unlikely to call for …
25 Jun 2026
A disabled MP has announced that she will co-sponsor an assisted suicide bill as it returns to parliament, despite the strong objections of the disability movement to the proposed legislation. Dr M…
25 Jun 2026
The Conservative party is refusing to provide any details of its review of disability benefits, including who is carrying it out, and what attempts it will make to engage with disabled people. Desp…
25 Jun 2026
Disabled people in Scotland have made it clear that the Motability vehicle scheme is essential to their independence and is not a “luxury”, particularly if they live in a rural area, a new report h…
25 Jun 2026
A new project is calling for people with memories and experiences of the disability arts movement to help preserve its history, with artists saying it will recognise the “vital role” the “cultural …
25 Jun 2026
The government has tried to claim credit for a scheme that will significantly increase the number of interpreters trained to support Deafblind people, despite providing just £15,000 in new funding.…
25 Jun 2026
One of the Labour government’s key disability employment programmes could prove to be a “positive” step forward, but its implementation has been “more challenging than expected”, a committee of MPs…
25 Jun 2026
The government’s review of personal independence payment (PIP) could lead to cuts in spending when it produces its final report later this year, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden has told MP…
18 Jun 2026
The government has been accused of an “outrageous” failure to listen to disabled campaigners and allies who have been calling for ministers to include far stronger measures on accessibility and dis…
18 Jun 2026
New UK mileage limits and higher excess charges have been paused by the Scottish government while talks with Motability take place.
16 Jun 2026
Access issues faced by wheelchair users in courts include broken lifts, “unsafe” ramps and unsuitable toilets.
14 Jun 2026
About 24% of the Scottish population identify as disabled, while only 7% of MSPs do - an increase on the previous parliamentary term.
08 Jun 2026
And Heartstopper star Bradley Riches on autistic hacks for wedding days
03 Jun 2026
… And actress Kimberley Nixon on perinatal OCD
05 May 2026
... and why autistic readers tell Elle McNicoll her novels saved their life.
01 Apr 2026
And Bridgerton's Gracie McGonigal on Regency London and limb difference
05 Mar 2026
Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan TD, has today announced the expansion of the Electric SPSV (eSPSV) Scheme for Small Public Service Vehicles (SPSVs) such as taxis and hackneys. The scheme has increased massively from €1million in 2020 to €15million in 2021 with grants of up to €20,000 now available to existing SPSV d
05 Feb 2021
Equality for disabled passengers wishing to use taxis and private hire vehicles is the focus of a consultation launched today by the Isle of Man Government.The Equality Act 2017 places an obligation on private hire vehicles to carry disabled passengers and their assistance dogs, subject to exemptions.Proposed changes,
04 Dec 2020
New cuts and fare increases across London’s Taxicard system will be a “severe blow” to the freedom and independence of thousands of disabled and older people and push them further into poverty, say…
26 Nov 2010
Delighted campaigners have welcomed proposed new laws that will force many local authorities to allow more wheelchair-accessible taxis onto the streets. The new amendment to the government’s equali…
10 Feb 2010
Wheelchair-users are celebrating a court victory over their local council that should lead to them being able to use a more accessible make of taxi. Campaigners in Liverpool had asked Liverpool Cit…
24 Aug 2009