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Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment
Access to Work

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment

Journalist Emily Davison, who is legally blind, has had her DWP Access to Work support slashed by 80%. She fears what’s next.

Rosie Jones: ‘I thought I couldn’t be disabled and gay – I’d never seen a gay disabled person’
Comedy

Rosie Jones: ‘I thought I couldn’t be disabled and gay – I’d never seen a gay disabled person’

Rosie Jones chats to the Big Issue about disability and sexuality as she is set to take to the stage in a play that breaks down taboos

Blind NHS psychologist fears losing job after DWP slashed her Access to Work support: ‘I was sobbing’
Access to work

Blind NHS psychologist fears losing job after DWP slashed her Access to Work support: ‘I was sobbing’

Cuts to DWP Access to Work support could force a visually impaired clinical psychologist out of her NHS role

We can save disabled people’s lives if we listen to the recommendations of the Covid inquiry
Georgia Bondy

We can save disabled people’s lives if we listen to the recommendations of the Covid inquiry

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’
Learning disabilities

People with learning disabilities are dying 20 years early, report finds: ‘They deserve better’

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Gogglebox star Daniel Lustig-Webb: ‘Why I’m learning sign language at 50-years-old’
Daniel Lustig-Webb

Gogglebox star Daniel Lustig-Webb: ‘Why I’m learning sign language at 50-years-old’

Children with SEND need support. The government must not restrict their rights
Bethany Bale

Children with SEND need support. The government must not restrict their rights

Disabled families use foil blankets to keep warm as energy bills keep surging: ‘We have to keep going’
fuel poverty

Disabled families use foil blankets to keep warm as energy bills keep surging: ‘We have to keep going’

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I’m on a mission to change that

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’
Access to Work

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: ‘I can’t make it make sense’

Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you’ve probably never heard of
Film

Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you’ve probably never heard of

Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer
Employment

Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer

Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better
James Watson-O'Neill

Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better

Labour’s rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty
Anela Anwar

Labour’s rushed cuts to benefits will see severely disabled people plunged into deep poverty

Here’s how to make your voice heard against the DWP’s disability benefit cuts
Disability benefits

Here’s how to make your voice heard against the DWP’s disability benefit cuts

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic
Rahima Begum

Doctors ignored me, a disabled woman, when deciding if I’d be resuscitated in the pandemic

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
James Watson-O’Neill

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people

Fats Timbo: ‘It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I’m going to change the world’
Disability activism

Fats Timbo: ‘It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I’m going to change the world’

‘I had to pay £75 for a chopping board’: This is how much extra being disabled costs me
Philippa Willitts

‘I had to pay £75 for a chopping board’: This is how much extra being disabled costs me

The care system fails millions of disabled people – we can’t wait till 2028 for the government to act
Mikey Erhardt

The care system fails millions of disabled people – we can’t wait till 2028 for the government to act

Disabled people were celebrated in 2024 – so why are so many fearing 2025?
Richard Kramer

Disabled people were celebrated in 2024 – so why are so many fearing 2025?

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‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
Assisted dying

‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate

These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime
Film

These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime

DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are ‘smokescreen for cuts’, disability activist says
Disability benefits

DWP benefit reforms to get people into work are ‘smokescreen for cuts’, disability activist says

Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support
Disability rights

Disabled people losing jobs and ‘falling out of work’ due to months-long waits for DWP support