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Disabled people have expressed outrage after learning that benefits claim forms containing confidential and highly personal information are being opened by Royal Mail staff in a south London sorting office.…

Three of the country’s leading disability organisations have agreed to merge within months. Members of the National Centre for Independent Living (NCIL), RADAR and Disability Alliance (DA) backed the merger…

The government is seeking international agreement on rules that would force car manufacturers to reduce the threat of their near-silent electric vehicles to the safety of blind pedestrians, a Liberal…

Campaigners have welcomed new rules that should make it easier for some mobility scooter-users to travel on buses. The code of practice, drawn up by the industry body the Confederation…

The world’s biggest disability and deaf arts festival is to link up next year with the cultural celebrations around the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. DaDaFest, the International Festival of Disability…

New research by disabled activists has produced fresh evidence of poor performance by the company paid to test disabled people’s “fitness for work”. The results come from an online survey…

Campaigners will try to convince local authorities testing out new government policies on special educational needs (SEN) to take an inclusive approach, despite the coalition’s “hostile” stance on including disabled…

New research has raised doubts over whether changes to the government’s “fitness for work” tests have made the assessments any fairer for disabled people. The survey of welfare advisers by…

Disabled people are to hold a major international disability arts festival to run in parallel with the London 2012 Paralympics. The free festival will take place in and around a…

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to investigate why it refused to prosecute any of the NHS staff accused of abusing 18 disabled people at a day centre. The decision…