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Disabled woman says council helped drive her to suicide attempts over ‘impossible’ care assessment deadlines
A local authority’s actions helped drive a disabled woman to attempt to take her own life, after it imposed an “impossible” ...
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New research exposes ‘shocking and eye-opening’ levels of bullying of universal credit claimants
New unpublished research has exposed the impact of “shocking and eye-opening” levels of bullying and systematic mistakes on ...
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Streeting set to announce next stage in long-term social care plan within weeks
The government is set to announce the next stage in developing its 10-year plan for social care within weeks, the health and ...
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New government figures show key policy at heart of disability employment strategy ‘will not work’
A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ...
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Two reports expose serious and critical barriers disabled people still face in their daily lives
Two new reports from organisations founded by disabled entrepreneurs have highlighted some of the “serious” and “critical” ...
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Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence
Senior civil servants and ministers spent more than a decade covering up evidence that links the actions of a government department with hundreds, and probably thousands, of deaths of disabled ...