Disabled people’s organisations have been kept “firmly on the outside” of a key government programme to improve workplace health, raising fresh questions about ministers’ commitment to co-producing…
24 Sep 2026
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment (PIP), which it said would only increase pre…
24 Sep 2026
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has called for the social care system to do more to “empower” disabled people, but without stating what policies his party would introduce to achieve this if it won…
24 Sep 2026
The Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesperson has pledged to do more to highlight that spending on social security is stable, so he can challenge right-wing politicians who claim it is spiral…
24 Sep 2026
A disabled MP has revealed how he twice faced discrimination in less than 24 hours after arriving in Brighton for his party’s annual conference this week. Steve Darling, who is registered blind and…
24 Sep 2026
A leading London Liberal Democrat has accused the public body that runs the capital of having “absolutely no idea” how to co-produce policy with disabled people. Hina Bokhari, leader of the Liberal…
24 Sep 2026
The government and one of its state-owned rail operators are refusing to say how many stations will be able to provide level boarding for disabled passengers, following a decision to lease 29 new b…
24 Sep 2026
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive v…
17 Sep 2026
Disabled activists have spoken of their relief after MPs voted to reject a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England and Wales, but they say the focus must now shift to improving s…
17 Sep 2026
Twice as many disabled MPs voted against a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England and Wales as those that voted in favour, according to calculations by Disability News Service. …
17 Sep 2026
New government research has exposed misleading calls by leading Conservative and Reform UK figures who have repeatedly claimed that assessments carried out remotely are more likely to lead to a suc…
17 Sep 2026
Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in the capital say the mayor of London’s first disability action plan is only a “starting point” in improving life for disabled Londoners, but that it is now …
17 Sep 2026
Early figures from the government’s “flagship” employment support programme show that about one in eight disabled people who have begun receiving out-of-work assistance through the scheme has reach…
17 Sep 2026
A lack of knowledge about reasonable adjustments – among both employers and employees – is causing problems for a “significant minority” of disabled workers, a government study has concluded. The s…
17 Sep 2026
An ongoing review into Personal Independence Payments (Pip) has found the system is "not fit for purpose".
15 Sep 2026
New innovations and workarounds are constantly being made to support blind parents in the challenges they face.
12 Sep 2026
Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest m…
10 Sep 2026
The Labour government risks alienating voters if it ignores new research which shows the public strongly oppose cuts to spending on disability benefits, disabled people’s organisations warned the p…
10 Sep 2026
Political parties that have spent years calling for cuts to spending on disabled people’s benefits have stayed silent in response to new research which shows the public have ignored their rhetoric …
10 Sep 2026
Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new surve…
10 Sep 2026
The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gamin…
10 Sep 2026
Reform UK’s equalities policy is mired in confusion this week after the party’s equalities spokesperson – former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman – appeared to perform a major U-turn in comment…
10 Sep 2026
A major new festival next year that will bring together the worlds of disability arts and para-sport could help fight back against right-wing media organisations that are constantly trying to “cast…
10 Sep 2026
Danielle McQuillan said she does not understand why her son, who has autism and severe learning disabilities, was registered.
10 Sep 2026
Jim Alison, who gave up his licence five years ago, has driven again with support from a charity.
06 Sep 2026
A Labour MP has publicly asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) why it ignored her requests for help, after a constituent threatened with sanctions over her universal credit claim attempt…
03 Sep 2026
Six government research reports have provided strong evidence of the huge barriers that prevent many young disabled people from moving into work, training or education. They show that – contrary to…
03 Sep 2026
A new government assessment has admitted that disabled people – and particularly older disabled people – could face subtle pressure to choose an assisted death, if a bill described as “unsafe” and …
03 Sep 2026
MPs have failed to question a minister on the continuing failure to introduce a legal duty for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “safeguard” people who receive state benefits. The evide…
03 Sep 2026
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine is facing calls to have his high-profile radio and television shows axed, after years of failing to challenge content that fuels hostility towards disabled people. So far, m…
03 Sep 2026
New figures have revealed that 50 secret investigations into the deaths of benefit claimants led to internal calls for improvements within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last year. Anot…
03 Sep 2026
Richard Osman on being visually impaired, writing and the benefit of thinking differently
02 Sep 2026
The disorder may affect hundreds of thousands in the UK, but many face delays in getting a diagnosis.
27 Aug 2026
The Labour government is set to fail again in a key promise on co-production of disability policy, after revealing how it will only ask disabled people for their views on a key strategy after it ha…
27 Aug 2026
A disabled people’s organisation has accused the Labour government of “discrimination by design” over a “roll back” in accessible housing targets in the final version of its new national planning p…
27 Aug 2026
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted terminating the claims of more than 1,200 disabled people who failed to engage with “migrating” onto universal credit, raising fresh fears ov…
20 Aug 2026
A flagship government scheme that links NHS therapy to employment advice is pushing disabled people who are in mental distress and not in work off the benefits that provide them with a vital income…
20 Aug 2026
An ombudsman report says disabled people are being let down by a lack of accessible communication methods.
19 Aug 2026
The change, which has been welcomed by campaign groups, will come into effect in England from April.
18 Aug 2026
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