Browsing: Disability

Disabled people are being blocked from travelling abroad by NHS care boards and local councils that refuse to let them use their care funding outside the…

With reference to your editorial (The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts, 10 July), and speaking as someone who…

Joanne Hewitson from Hartlepool only wanted to enjoy breakfast at her local pub, accompanied by her guide dog, Rosie. Instead, a member of staff wrongly and…

The UK supreme court has ended a system of safeguards around the human rights of disabled people that has been in place for over a decade,…

Severely disabled people will be at heightened risk of abuse in care homes and hospitals after the biggest upheaval in disability law in a generation overturned…

The national disability insurance scheme was a Labor vision brought to life with the Coalition’s blessing, an act of political bi-partisanship that would change the lives…

I don’t think anger should be aimed at the BBC for broadcasting the N-word (I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was…

Josh Miele explains the nuances of a tactile map of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.Credit: Laurie UdeskyWorking scientist profilesThis article is part of an occasional…

The head of one of Scotland’s foremost disability rights charities says she turned down an MBE in the recent new year honours because the UK government…

Government plans to make huge cuts to targets for accessible new-build homes in England have been labelled a “monumental reversal” by campaigners, who say disabled people…