Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve ...

Campaigners have called for an inquiry into the deaths of parents driven to despair by the refusal of the Department for Work ...

Hundreds of disabled people and allies have called on the prime minister to take “urgent” action to fix the crisis-ridden and “broken” Access to Work disability employment scheme. In a new open ...

Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the ...

A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in ...

Retail giant Marks and Spencer has agreed to pay compensation and make changes to at least one of its stores after installing ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a failing organisation in a “state of crisis” and faces a “near collapse” of its benefits systems, according to a “devastating” dossier of evidence from ...

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has warned that harsh new policies that are forcing more disabled people to attend weekly face-to-face jobcentre meetings could lead to benefit ...

The Labour government has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs. Leaked ...

Healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of benefit claimants have lied, ignored written evidence and dishonestly reported the results of physical examinations, according to a ...

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 has ...