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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…

Disabled Liberal Democrats have helped force a major change to their party’s policies on welfare reform, and the use of “fitness for work” tests to determine eligibility for out-of-work disability…

A Liberal Democrat minister has warned that a government social care white paper due next spring may not include long-awaited measures to reform the funding of support for disabled adults…

A government minister has held out hope that some of the most unpopular measures in the welfare reform bill could be removed or eased during its progress through the House…

A new programme aims to help the Liberal Democrats increase the number of disabled people – and other under-represented groups – elected to represent their party as MPs. The Liberal…

Disabled peers have failed to prevent the government moving the next stage of the debate on its hugely controversial welfare reform bill to a less accessible part of the House…

The Paralympic flame for next year’s games in London will be created in a ceremony in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, 2012 organisers have announced. It will…

Organisers of next year’s London 2012 Paralympics have released full details of the competition schedule for all 20 sports. The details were released as the organising committee prepared to pass…