A disabled peer has used a debate celebrating International Women’s Day to highlight how a disabled woman was placed in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has caused outrage among disabled activists after declaring in an interview that Labour was “not the party of people on benefits”. In an interview in ...

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 ...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when claimants threaten to take their own lives, following secret reviews into as many as six suicides linked ...

A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve, ...

New government figures that show an increase of 1.3 million in the number of disabled people in work since 2017 are “meaningless” when it comes to the inequality disabled people face in the jobs ...