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Two “driven and creative” disabled businessmen – who both run companies selling independent living aids – have been declared joint winners of a lucrative annual award. The Stelios Award for…

Transport bosses say they believe design changes made to the successor to London’s Routemaster bus will make it more accessible for wheelchair-users. A prototype of the new “bus for London”…

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has turned away disabled activists who wanted to deliver a campaigning Christmas card on behalf of 23,000 people who signed a petition calling…

A university has prevented one of its disabled students from using an accessible parking space that was allowing him to carry out vital work experience, and has now painted over…

A committee of MPs and peers has suggested that parts of the government’s controversial welfare reform bill could breach disabled people’s human rights. The joint committee on human rights (JCHR)…

A disabled peer has failed by just two votes to overturn plans that will see a steep cut in financial support for many families with disabled children. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson…

New government proposals to “shake up” the scrutiny of adult social care have failed to mask growing concerns that the coalition is planning to postpone the long-awaited reform of care…

Serious doubts have emerged about crucial statistics used by the minister for disabled people to justify the government’s sweeping disability living allowance (DLA) reforms. Maria Miller was appearing this week…

Outraged campaigners say a new government-backed benefit fraud campaign could expose disabled people to hostility and violence in their own communities. The national campaign has been launched by the “crime-fighting”…

Bosses from the country’s three leading cinema chains have been given a grilling by young disabled activists over their failure to make their screens more accessible. Leading executives from Cineworld,…