- Mobility component u-turn: The government has refused to say how it will fund its decision to abandon plans to remove a key mobility benefit from disabled people in residential care.
- Mobility component u-turn: The government has been accused of “incompetence” after it finally abandoned plans to remove mobility support from disabled people in residential homes.
- Disabled people could face fresh cuts to spending on social care and other services and benefits in future years, campaigners fear.
- Disabled activists have been left “bewildered” by the decision to present the minister for employment with an award for the accessibility of his website.
- The government is urging disabled people to suggest measures they would like to see included in its new disability strategy.
- Most of the remaining tickets for next year’s Paralympics in London have gone on sale.
- A government department has been heavily criticised for ignoring the needs of disabled people in developing countries.
- The Motability car scheme is facing anger from disabled customers over new restrictions that will make it harder for them to find personal assistants to drive their vehicles.
- Recommendations in a major government-backed report on “sickness absence” have placed a worrying question-mark over vital new equality laws that protect disabled job-seekers from discrimination, say campaigners.
- A “powerful and enlightening” series of experimental poems has captured the lives of four disabled people in their own voices.
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