Labour’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed its latest test on transparency after appealing against a regulator’s decision that it should release vital information from secret reports ...

A disabled people’s organisation is calling on coffee shops to do more to avoid the “pervasive humiliation” faced by many customers who stammer when they try to place their order. Many people who ...

A retired Paralympian has called for the charity that oversees the Motability scheme to use some of its huge financial reserves to allow more disabled people with high support needs to drive ...

A disabled woman who sits on a social security tribunal is set to take legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for breaching the Human Rights Act, after years of “persecution” ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been ordered to release missing parts of a document that warned national power cuts could cause “catastrophic deterioration” in some disabled people ...

The original aim was to raise £3,500, enough money to send a copy of The Department to every Labour MP in the House of Commons. But the campaign was so successful that the target was doubled, and the ...

“Positive” new figures show there are far more disabled MPs in the House of Commons than previously thought, and possibly as many as 40. Even after the addition of at least three new disabled MPs ...

Disabled people and allies are hoping that a new national network will support service-users who are constantly battling their local authority over their social care packages. The Care Net is ...

A peer support scheme that has helped hundreds of disabled people in a single borough with the barriers they face in their daily lives has secured nearly £600,000 in funding over the next five years ...

Accessibility standards at airports across the UK have slumped over the last year – and in comparison with pre-pandemic levels – despite the regulator claiming they have improved. The UK Civil ...

Both the government and Network Rail have refused to say what will happen to £65 million of funding that was allocated to improving access at rail stations over the last five years, but was never ...

Three deaths of disabled people who took their own lives were linked to flaws within the universal credit system, despite the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) previously dismissing fears about ...