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2024年12月20日 · Disabled activists have pledged to continue the fight against the legalisation of assisted suicide, despite MPs voting comfortably in favour of a bill that would allow it to be …
All News Stories – Disability News Service
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 …
Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to …
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 …
Two reports expose serious and critical barriers disabled people …
2024年11月14日 · Two new reports from organisations founded by disabled entrepreneurs have highlighted some of the “serious” and “critical” barriers disabled people are facing in their daily …
‘Dangerous’ rollout of universal credit ‘poses threat’ to disabled ...
2024年12月20日 · The “dangerous” rollout of universal credit to half a million more claimants is a potential threat to the “safety and well-being” of disabled people who currently rely on so …
Benefits and Poverty – Disability News Service
Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among …
About DNS - Disability News Service
Disability News Service (DNS) is run by John Pring, a disabled journalist who has been reporting on disability issues for nearly 25 years. He launched DNS in April 2009 to address the …
New government figures show key policy at heart of disability ...
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 …
Advice services run by disabled people under threat due to …
2024年12月19日 · 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 …
Care charges mean disabled people are facing unlawful …
2024年12月19日 · Disabled people across England are continuing to face unlawful discrimination and inequality on an “unparalleled” scale due to “unjust” social care charging policies, …