The controversial IT giant Atos Healthcare has broken a series of firm pledges that helped it win a £184 million disability assessment contract, Disability News Service can reveal. It comes as the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rolls out the assessments – for the new personal independence payment (PIP) – across the country. The [...]

One of the UK’s two major disabled people’s representative organisations will lose its last paid member of staff next month, after it accepted defeat in a lengthy struggle to secure sustainable funding. UK Disabled People’s Council (UKDPC) will continue to operate in the short-term through the work of its unpaid trustees and volunteers while it [...]

The prospect of Labour calling for the hated “fitness for work” test to be scrapped and for a more “humane” way of assessing entitlement to benefits has moved a step closer, with its appointment of a new disability poverty taskforce.  Six leading disability experts have been asked by Labour to find ways to “break the [...]