Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of ...

Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have united in opposition to attempts to legalise assisted suicide, after months of ...

Cross-party MPs have warned that ministers’ refusal to introduce a key protection into their new fraud and error bill could see a repeat of the countless deaths caused by the austerity measures of ...

A new “independent” investigation into the rising number of young people who are not in jobs, training or education will ...

The government needs to change its “extremely damaging” narrative that suggests disabled people are an “economic burden”, and move away from threats and sanctions, if it wants to increase ...

A new project to research and reveal 50 years of stories behind the rise of the disability arts movement has been awarded ...

The disability minister has refused once again to explain what role he played in his department’s secret programme to cut ...

Disabled people’s organisations have dismissed the government’s new Disability Action Plan as a series of “empty promises” that fail to address the “dire situation” disabled people are facing. The ...

The minister for social security has admitted there are serious safety concerns with universal credit, following coroners’ reports that linked the working-age benefits system with the suicides of two ...

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has caused outrage among disabled activists after declaring in an interview that Labour was “not the party of people on benefits”. In an interview in ...

A trio of outsourcing companies that have faced repeated criticism over their links to deaths and serious harm caused to disabled benefit claimants have made almost no attempts in the last year to ...

New government figures that show an increase of 1.3 million in the number of disabled people in work since 2017 are “meaningless” when it comes to the inequality disabled people face in the jobs ...