Campaigners have called for an inquiry into the deaths of parents driven to despair by the refusal of the Department for Work ...

A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in ...

Disabled campaigners betrayed by a solicitor who took many high-profile cases of disability discrimination have spoken of the ...

Retail giant Marks and Spencer has agreed to pay compensation and make changes to at least one of its stores after installing ...

Accessible transport campaigners have called on the government to sign up to 10 “basic equality standards” that would improve ...

Hundreds of disabled people and allies have called on the prime minister to take “urgent” action to fix the crisis-ridden and “broken” Access to Work disability employment scheme. In a new open ...

A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases” linked to the ...

A Conservative peer was commissioned to examine how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dealt with reports of claimant ...

A “landmark” decision has forced a regulator to examine whether credit companies should be allowed to take disability benefits into account when calculating if disabled people can take out risky ...

The Labour government has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs. Leaked ...

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whistleblower has warned that harsh new policies that are forcing more disabled people to attend weekly face-to-face jobcentre meetings could lead to benefit ...

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 ...