The new minister for disabled people has agreed to consider fresh demands for the government to assess the full impact on disabled people of all of its cuts and reforms to benefits and services. But Esther McVey, who replaced Maria Miller as minister last month, offered no suggestion that she would attempt to soften cuts [...]

For the full stories, please click on the links: Labour has called for an “immediate investigation” after evidence emerged that Atos Healthcare won two lucrative disability assessment contracts by using “misleading” information about its links with disabled people’s organisations. The launch of a government review has raised fears that ministers are planning to replace their [...]

An award-winning disabled artist is to spend three days in bed in front of an audience, in an attempt to portray the contradictions of her impairment, and the government’s “miserable, terrifying, punishing” fitness for work assessment regime. The writer-director-activist Liz Crow is forced to spend much of her life in bed because of her impairment, [...]

Labour has called for an “immediate investigation” after evidence emerged that Atos Healthcare won two lucrative disability assessment contracts by using “misleading” information about its links with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). Anne McGuire, the shadow minister for disabled people, said the revelations – passed to her by Disability News Service (DNS) – raised “extremely serious [...]

The launch of a government review has raised fears that ministers are planning to replace their advisory network of disabled people with a controversial new “alliance” of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), charities, service-providers and private sector organisations. The new Conservative minister for disabled people, Esther McVey, quietly announced a review into the role of Equality [...]