New research commissioned by a Deaf-led charity has found that nearly all users of British Sign Language (BSL) would rather ...

Disabled people and their organisations can push back against the rise of the far-right by joining a mass demonstration in ...

Ministers are facing questions over why the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using a strict screening process to ...

A disabled peer has used a debate celebrating International Women’s Day to highlight how a disabled woman was placed in a nursing home against her will after treatment for pneumonia, rather than ...

November’s changes to the Motability car scheme – including tax rises introduced by the government – are already restricting disabled people’s freedom to travel, according to a letter signed by 70 ...

Peers have approved a government amendment that will strengthen disability hate crime laws, but disabled campaigners say there must still be a “total overhaul” of legislation. The amendment means ...

The prime minister has excluded disabled people from a new forum he has set up to “bring civil society into the heart of government decision‑making”, evidence suggests. Downing Street released the ...

A disabled peer has hit back at months of attacks on her and other opponents of the assisted suicide bill that accuse them of ...

Campaigners have warned a minister that the decision to change how the Warm Home Discount Scheme is funded will discriminate ...

New official figures published alongside this week’s spring statement have again disproved claims that spending on “welfare” is “spiralling out of control”. The Office for Budget Responsibility ...

A government-owned train company has had to promise to make significant improvements to the disability awareness training of its station staff after a regulator discovered it had been failing to ...

Scores of failings that contributed to the deaths of disabled people who relied on the social security system were kept from MPs who were voting on cuts to disability benefits in the summer of ...