A shadow minister has pledged that her party will continue to push for changes to the coalition’s welfare reform bill, but has suggested that Labour will still back key parts of the government agenda. Margaret Curran, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, said it was vital to “get people back to work, because we have [...]

Government cuts to the legal aid budget will lead to the “decimation” of the civil law system and cause huge problems for disabled people, Labour party members have heard. The cuts are part of the government’s legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently at its committee stage in the Commons. Steve [...]

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to investigate why it refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. The decision not to bring any charges over the alleged abuse at the Solar Centre in Doncaster was made just three days after the head of the [...]

Disabled people are to hold a major international disability arts festival to run in parallel with the London 2012 Paralympics. The free festival will take place in and around a park in east London, less than two miles from the main Olympic Park, and will probably start and end on the same days as the [...]

New research has raised doubts over whether changes to the government’s “fitness for work” tests have made the assessments any fairer for disabled people. The survey of welfare advisers by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) comes nearly 10 months after the publication of an independent review of the work capability assessment (WCA) called on the [...]