The decision to reject a leading disabled activist’s application for disability living allowance has fuelled fears that the government is deliberately turning down eligible claims as part of its programme of spending cuts. Transport bosses say they believe design changes made to the successor to London’s Routemaster bus will make it more accessible for wheelchair-users. [...]

Outraged campaigners say a new government-backed benefit fraud campaign could expose disabled people to hostility and violence in their own communities. Serious doubts have emerged about crucial statistics used by the minister for disabled people to justify the government’s sweeping disability living allowance reforms. New government proposals to “shake up” the scrutiny of adult social [...]

Police are unlikely to reopen their investigation into the death of a disabled man who had suffered a hate crime ordeal lasting nearly 40 years, even though a coroner has ruled that he was unlawfully killed. Many of the country’s leading disabled activists have accused the government of “a total ignorance” of how a lengthy [...]

An NHS trust is refusing to identify the surgery where a doctor is working, even though his negligence allowed scores of disabled people to be raped, drugged, assaulted and neglected at two residential homes. The primary care trust has admitted that Dr X* is working within its boundaries in NHS facilities – possibly as a [...]