For the full stories, please click on the links: The government appears to have left out any mention of the brutal cuts to disabled people’s benefits and services in a crucial report about how it is implementing the United Nations disability convention. Disability organisations have welcomed the second annual review of the government’s much-criticised “fitness [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links:  New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played a much larger part in influencing those reforms than it previously admitted. A cabinet minister has been heavily criticised after again appearing to encourage national newspapers [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: A disabled woman and her husband who have been found dead in their house had spoken publicly of their struggle to obtain the benefits they needed to survive. MPs have accused the government of “pandering to the Daily Mail” over the issue of incapacity benefit reform, [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: A report into one of the most controversial of the government’s planned welfare reforms has been given a cool reception by leading disabled people’s organisations. Outraged campaigners have attacked the BBC for screening an “offensive” documentary about the benefits system. The life of Helen Keller, disability [...]

An investigation by young disabled campaigners has raised new fears of a shortage of accessible hotel rooms when thousands of disabled visitors descend on London for the 2012 Paralympics. The investigation also highlighted flaws in Inclusive London, a website launched this summer by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and the Greater London Authority (GLA). [...]