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Nov 14, 2024 · Disabled politicians have welcomed the government’s pledge to scrap the ban on councillors attending meetings online, which should see an end to some of the discrimination they face when trying to play a role in local government. Labour’s deputy prime minister, Angela ...
Children’s commissioner ‘increasingly dismayed’ at numbers …
2 days ago · The children’s commissioner has said she has become “increasingly dismayed” by the number of disabled and other children with “complex needs” who are being deprived of their liberty by the state. In a report commissioned by the Department for Education and NHS England, Dame Rachel de Souza ...
Mounting evidence of assessment crisis, as DWP halts WCA …
Nov 14, 2024 · Mounting evidence suggests a crisis within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) systems that assess disabled people for their eligibility for benefits. Delays and backlogs across the assessme…
Half a million set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘fit for work’ test ...
Nov 14, 2024 · 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…
Ministers could merge disability benefits and want to cut future ...
Nov 14, 2024 · Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green paper ha…
Seven years on and no progress on disability rights by UK …
Nov 7, 2024 · The UK government has made “no significant progress” in the more than seven years since it was found guilty of “grave and systematic” violations of the UN disability convention, it has been told by human rights experts.
‘Deep concern’ over government’s disability benefits green …
Nov 14, 2024 · Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and others have raised serious concerns about suggestions that ministers want to cut future spending on disability benefits and merge personal independence payment with universal credit.
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A long-awaited new mental health bill falls far short of the fundamental reforms needed to ensure full human rights for disabled people, and will not stop them being subjected to forcible detention and degrading treatment, activists have warned.
Ministers ‘should admit figures show zero progress on disability ...
Oct 31, 2024 · Suggestions that ministers have reduced the disadvantage faced by disabled people in the jobs market are misleading and based on “flawed” measures, a disability employment expert has told Disability News Service (DNS).
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The most senior civil servant in the Department for Education (DfE) has told MPs that educating disabled pupils in mainstream schools is usually much cheaper and produces “similar or better outcomes” than using special schools.