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 ...

A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the probability of them ...

New unpublished research has exposed the impact of “shocking and eye-opening” levels of bullying and systematic mistakes on disabled people forced to rely on the universal credit working-age benefits ...

MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for a public inquiry into the years of deaths linked to the actions of ministers, senior civil servants and advisers at the ...

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have made a plea to the government to listen to their “authentic” voices rather than ...

Campaigners have written to the BBC to express the “outpouring of hurt and distress” felt by disabled people over its decision to broadcast a disabled-led drama that mirrored years of deeply damaging ...

Two new reports from organisations founded by disabled entrepreneurs have highlighted some of the “serious” and “critical” ...

Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled people ...

The government is set to announce the next stage in developing its 10-year plan for social care within weeks, the health and social care secretary has told MPs. Wes Streeting (pictured) told members ...

A local authority’s actions helped drive a disabled woman to attempt to take her own life, after it imposed an “impossible” two-week deadline upon her as part of a discriminatory social care ...

Advice services provided by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are under significant financial threat, despite a surge in demand for the support they provide, new research has shown. More than ...

Friends and former colleagues are mourning the loss of a disabled peer and broadcaster who played a key role in fighting for disabled people’s rights in the House of Lords. Baroness [Rosalie] Wilkins, ...