Campaigners and families demand action on police use of tasers
On 25 August, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) published a review of the police's use of taser in England ...
Tag: disability
Hundreds of people complain to the BBC about ‘Sickness and Lies’
A BBC 'documentary' called Sickness and Lies sparked hundreds of complaints from people. It revealed the figures in a fortnightly ...
Asda’s ‘disability discrimination’ is not an isolated problem
ASDA is still in the firing line over its sacking of a disabled worker. So far the corporate giant isn't ...
BBC toxicity just peaked with the ‘Sickness and Lies’ documentary
A BBC documentary called Sickness and Lies has received a huge backlash on social media. And the angry reaction from ...
First austerity and now the pandemic: the Tories have devastated disabled children’s services
The Disabled Children's Partnership (DCP) has launched a campaign calling on chancellor Rishi Sunak to properly fund disabled children’s social ...
The DWP just snuck out another Universal Credit cut
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is cutting payments for some Universal Credit claimants. It's starting from Sunday 1 ...
An ex-UN investigator has written another damning report on the UK government
A report has raised human rights concerns regarding decades of failed government privatisation in the UK. A campaign group said ...
The Tories just got the starkest warning about Universal Credit yet
The Tories are still going to cut Universal Credit by £20 a week. Now, a think tank has given a ...
#KeepTheUplift: people are slamming the Tories’ Universal Credit cut
The Tories' cut to Universal Credit was at the front of many people's minds on Wednesday 14 July. A campaigning ...
DWP may have ‘secretly’ investigated twice as many claimant deaths already this year
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may have 'secretly' investigated around 50 claimant deaths this year. That's according to ...
BBC research shows ‘horrendous’ pandemic experiences of disabled people
The BBC has published its own research into chronically ill and disabled people's experience of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. One ...
35,000 deaths later, the DWP still denies its problems are ‘systemic’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied that it has "systemic" problems. This was during an inquest into ...
Another Jeremy Corbyn pledge was just ditched by Keir Starmer
Labour has reportedly ditched its plans to offer free social care if elected. Jeremy Corbyn's leadership put plans for a ...
Employees suffering with long Covid are being discriminated against at work
The TUC is calling for the government to recognise long Covid as a disability to prevent suffering employees being discriminated ...
Osime Brown’s case is a reflection of the UK’s racist, ableist state and its institutions
On 15 June, Osime Brown’s mother announced that the Home Office has dropped the deportation case against her 22-year-old autistic ...
Campaign groups are uniting to stop the deportation of Osime Brown
On 12 June, campaigners are demonstrating against the deportation of Osime Brown. Brown is a Black, autistic 22-year-old who hasn’t ...
Tory politicians’ shocking attacks on disabled colleagues aren’t all that shocking
An independent news site has revealed shocking comments Tory peers made about their disabled colleagues. They laced their views with ...
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