Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of destitution. The ...

The government must abandon its “watered-down” proposals for emergency evacuation of disabled people who live in high-rise residential buildings, say disabled people’s organisations. The government ...

A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of ...

MPs pushing for the legalisation of assisted suicide have been warned by a disabled academic that protections in the proposed bill that are aimed at preventing disabled people being “coerced” into ...

Being in receipt of disability benefits has a significant positive impact on a disabled person’s wellbeing and level of “life satisfaction”, according to new research. Researchers said their ...

The government has finally ordered research into the reasons behind what it claims is a “spiralling” increase in the number of people claiming out-of-work disability benefits. The pledge to identify ...

The responses of disabled people who answered a question about the likely impact of expected government cuts to disability benefits have revealed a worrying level of “fear and desperation”, say ...

The care regulator has admitted to shocked MPs that many service-users, relatives and care staff who have reported safeguarding concerns about a care home or hospital may still be waiting for a ...

Disabled activists have questioned the “draconian” conclusions of a Lords committee that has told the government to impose stricter conditions, more assessments, and a more “rigorous” work capability ...

A disabled activist has won praise for a successful two-year plan that has exposed the “ridiculously-low” awards handed out by the Rail Ombudsman to disabled passengers. Doug Paulley’s efforts have ...

Labour’s disability minister has said for the first time that he is drawing up a list of priorities for action to address the barriers faced by disabled people. It is believed to be the first time ...

One of the founders of the UK’s independent living movement, John Evans, who was driven by a determination to ensure that disabled people could take control of their own lives, has died. Since he ...