For the full stories, please click on the links: Serious concerns have been raised over the government’s specialist disability employment programme, after new figures suggested it has helped only a few hundred disabled people with high support needs into jobs. Coalition cuts to disability living allowance could cost the economy £650 million a year and [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: Organisers of this summer’s Paralympics opening ceremony have faced heavy criticism after admitting that fewer than 100 of the 3,000 adult volunteers set to take part will be disabled people. One of the original architects of a pioneering government advice body has warned that coalition plans [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: A Liberal Democrat minister has defended the coalition’s controversial commitment to “remove the bias towards inclusion” in disabled children’s education. Local authorities have been accused of “burying their heads in the sand” over cuts to adult social care, after admitting that spending will fall by nearly [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: A coalition minister ordered civil servants to prevent two disability charities from attending meetings on how to improve personal independence payment, the government’s new disability benefit. A disability charity boss has resisted calls to resign from a committee that advises the government on its controversial “fitness [...]

Serious concerns have been raised over the government’s specialist disability employment programme, after new figures suggested it has helped only a few hundred disabled people with high support needs into jobs. Work Choice was launched in October 2010 and aims to provide intensive in-work support to those disabled people with the greatest barriers to employment, [...]