Nearly two million people in families with a disabled member were forced into poverty by Tories
Conservative government policies have forced nearly two million people – in families that have a disabled member – into poverty, …
Category Archives: Discrimination
Equality watchdog may act to stop DWP discriminating against people with disabilities
If the Equalities and Human Rights Commission does decide to investigate discrimination against disabled people by the DWP, This Writer …
‘Degrading and humiliating’ – why do police treat disabled people so badly?
The Metropolitan Police has been accused of “degrading and humiliating” treatment of people with disabilities who took part in the …
Humiliation for DWP after years-long Bedroom Tax bid to persecute a rape victim
I said it defied belief when this story first broke. And I said it was sickening when, hearing of the …
Tories withdraw illegal leaflet telling disabled jobseekers to downplay their conditions
A “well-intentioned” leaflet urging people with disabilities to mislead employers about their conditions has been withdrawn by the Department for …
Window-lickin’ bad: Disability ‘hate tweet’ MP appointed mental health minister
Boris Johnson really does seem to have gone out of his way to offend the nation with his government appointments. …
Stella Creasy is right: Nobody should be forced to choose between their career and motherhood
At first it may seem very much a First World problem: Labour’s Stella Creasy has written a Guardian article apparently complaining …
DWP says there’s no need to review its safeguarding procedures. The late Stephen Smith might disagree
Remember the Department for Work and Pensions’ rejection of a petition demanding an independent review of its safeguarding procedures, after …
Benefit claimants are the modern equivalent of dogs to private landlords, say MPs
Britain’s landlords are living in the past, it seems, with many of them determined to exclude benefit claimants by using …
Legal aid decision for Shamima Begum allows the Tories to give free rein to their hypocrisy
I can’t say I’m happy that the UK is likely to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money …