A long-awaited new mental health bill falls far short of the fundamental reforms needed to ensure full human rights for ...

A right-wing broadcaster is likely to escape police action despite describing young disabled people on out-of-work benefits ...

Labour’s rail minister had made a series of promises that could see “the beginning of the end” of sub-standard assistance for ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied destroying documents that would have revealed why it weakened guidance on when to investigate the cases of benefit claimants who took their ...

Spending on supporting disabled people in work through a disability employment scheme has more than doubled in real terms in the last seven years, new government figures have revealed. The new ...

The way the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has treated disabled people in the last 15 years “will go down in history ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that it carried out more than 30 secret reviews last year ...

Disabled activists have criticised the “truly shocking” failure of an MP to publish a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide, just three weeks before it is due to be debated – and voted on – ...

Labour’s first budget for 15 years has failed to do enough to address the “systemic challenges” faced by disabled people across society, user-led organisations have warned the Treasury. The first ...

The new Labour government’s policy on social security reform is in chaos after it issued contrasting statements and briefings on budget day about whether – and how – it would press ahead with planned ...

Disabled activists have raised serious concerns about “toxic” and “outrageously cruel” plans to bring forward a bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater ...

The care regulator’s annual assessment of “the state of health and care” in England includes almost no discussion of the quality and safety of adult social care services, analysis of the report has ...