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Disabled people’s organisations consider halting engagement with disability minister over ‘brutal cuts’
Some of England’s leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are considering halting all engagement with the minister for ...
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Senior Labour MP calls for urgent safeguarding action after ‘harrowing’ account of PIP review tragedy
An influential Labour MP has called on her government to take urgent action to safeguard benefit claimants, after a disabled ...
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Lords is ‘aeons ahead’ of Commons on access, disabled MP tells colleagues
The House of Lords is “aeons ahead” of the Commons when it comes to providing an accessible working environment for ...
Disability News Service20m
Ofcom has ‘failed millions of disabled people’ after clearing two TV shows that attacked benefit claimants
The broadcasting watchdog has failed millions of disabled people by clearing two television programmes of disability ...
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Access to Work delays shoot up, just as government is trying to address disability employment
New figures show that disabled people are waiting nearly 100 days for their Access to Work claims to be “reconsidered” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), just as the government has ...