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It is impossible not to have been shocked and dismayed by the situation unfolding in Ukraine in the past week. Ukraine has a reported Disabled population of nearly three million people...
03 March 2022
Charities from across the UK have warned the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Thérèse Coffey that plans to restart ‘managed migration’ to universal...
06 May 2022
A new Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report warns that deep health inequalities and ineffective policies mean people are living shorter lives, with more years spent in...
05 May 2022
Thousands of disabled Ukrainian children have been abandoned in institutions that can’t look after them, according to the BBC.
Disability Rights International has found children with...
05 May 2022
The UK government’s policy on discharging people from hospital into care homes without testing them for Covid, in order to give those who needed it follow up care after contracting...
05 May 2022
The House of Lords has voted in favour of the current version of the Health and Social Care Bill, effectively voting against amendments that would have ensured that nobody in England...
05 May 2022
The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) funding ‘black hole’ grew by 52% in the past year, with one child sent to a SEND school 412 miles from their home reports the Bureau...
05 May 2022
“Dental deserts” are affecting Disabled people across England after more than 2,000 dentists have given up their practices in the past year.
NHS dentistry has long been in crisis as...
05 May 2022
Three Disabled women who lost relatives because of the actions of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have accused the equality watchdog of failing them and countless other...
03 May 2022
The DWP is encouraging those receiving “legacy benefits” who would be “better off” on Universal Credit (UC) to claim it voluntarily.
There are six means tested legacy benefits: income-...
25 April 2022
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