Archive: Disability

Our ten-year plan to stop disabled people missing out on work

New strategy to see one million more disabled people in work by 2027

Warning over new exclusion threat for disabled people

Leading charity warns government is in danger of excluding disabled people from key area of economic policy
I'm Broken, Britain: This is a battle for survival

An anonymous writer on his battle with the DWP

Council plans ban of 'annoying' public speakers and mobility scooters

A raft of activities could be banned under Enfield council's proposals
Government defeated at the Supreme Court over bedroom tax

Supreme Court ruled in favour of two families in the bedroom tax case

I’m Broken, Britain: I’m Daniel Blake

An anonymous writer sounds the alarm over the DWP's stifling, Kafkaesque rules
I'm Broken, Britain: Reinventing welfare for the disabled

The hidden disabled workforce are capable of high achievements

'Confusion, obstruction and complexity': How the DWP is denying vulnerable people justice

Welfare rights advisors raise serious concerns about the DWP's benefits appeals system
Campaigners call for a full assessment of the impact of cuts on disabled people

Disabled campaigners say the government is refusing to carry out a full assessment of the impact of cuts

Comment: The Work Programme is not working for disabled people

Major reform is needed to tackle the disability employment gap
PMQs Verdict: Freud revelation puts Cameron in his sick bed

Both leaders may be on their sick beds, but Cameron's condition looks more difficult to treat.

WATCH: Godfrey Bloom asks disabled student: 'Are you Richard III?'

Former Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom in hot water again for insulting a disabled student during an Oxford Union debate.
Analysis: Bridging the disability employment gap

Access to specialist disability employment support will need to significantly increase if the gap in employment rate is to be bridged.

Comment: Osborne's cuts are disproportionately punishing the disabled

Osborne's cuts are eroding the support for disabled people, which is completely out of kilter with public opinion.
Comment: Time to stamp out disability hate crime for good

A new report has shown disability hate crime goes largely unreported. While some progress is being made, there is still a lot to be done to eliminate this problem entirely.

Councillor quits after 'disabled kids should be put down' remark

Cornwall county councillor finally bows to public pressure after saying disabled children should be 'put down'.
Comment: Stammering MPs are better than glib ones

Ed Balls' stammer shouldn't be mocked. We have blind MPs and MPs in wheelchairs, but one would be hard put to find incidences when their disability become a subject of mirth for political opponents.

Govt sneaks out disability redundancy news

The government sneaked out news of further redundancies at Remploy factories today, using a ministerial statement to announce 682 disabled workers' jobs were at risk.
Third of incapacity benefit claimants judged fit to work

Over a third of all those assessed for incapacity benefits between December last year and February this year were fit for work, according to government figures.

Lib Dem diary: Clegg finishes badly at Scalextric

His personal popularity may be taking a bit of a battering in the polls - but Nick Clegg pulled the crowds in at the Liberal Democrat exhibition centre today during his tour of the stands.
Comment: Paralympic support is a figleaf for cuts

While the government praises paralympians for their 'can do' attitude, it is busy withdrawing all the support that helped them become sporting heroes in the first place.

UK's first disability minister dies days before Paralympics

Britain's first disability minister has died days before the opening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Comment: Names will never hurt me?

Ricky Gervais has unwittingly endorsed negative assumptions about disabled people.