👨‍👦 60% say work experience depends on 'who you know', not 'what you know'. Young people need need better careers advice and structured, fair access to opportunities for all. Read more www.ippr.org/articles/tow...

A shortage of work coaches at jobcentres has led The Department for Work & Pension to reduce the level of support it provides to Universal Credit claimants. Read our report on how DWP supports people to work through jobcentres: www.nao.org.uk/reports/supp... youtu.be/dW8nTrFgu_I

The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.

Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday.

The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty by 2030, official documents have revealed.

💪 The #EmploymentRights Bill passed the Commons last night – delivering a major victory for working people. ❌ The Tories & Reform tried to block it at every turn.

DWP refuses to apologise after using ‘deeply irresponsible’ figure to exaggerate benefit claimant rise #HandsOffDisabilityBenefits

Getting very angry with @nihr.bsky.social journals people who now run all submissions through a crazy piece of 'plagiarism' software and ask you to insert a lengthy copyright disclaimer whenever they spot a sentence that is the same as, or similar to, a sentence you have published previously.

Hi 👋 Like many we are trying to find a suitable alternative to migrate from Twitter/X so find ourselves here. We are keen to connect with: 🎭 d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists 📢 disability rights activists 👌advocates of access and inclusion 🪇arts venues Anyone else in arts & access 👇

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

'On the nights she struggled to breathe, she was forced to stay awake and hold the mask to her face in the dark. The NHS’s solution?...one assessor suggested her 14-yr-old daughter fill in as a child carer...being on call for the ventilator throughout the night.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Department for Work and Pensions civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.

Never again. We will remember them.

Around 250,000 disabled children & adults were murdered in Nazi Germany, they were considered a threat to the human gene pool, a drain on society & their lives unworthy of life. It began with 'mercy killing' of children that required approval from medical experts. hmd.org.uk/learn-about-...

Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations from giving evidence in person.

Hello! I am working with Amnesty & I am looking for a Disabled person who has experienced difficulties in the benefits system & then experienced impacts to their wider rights (housing, health etc) because of the violation of their right to social security. Please DM or comment. You can be anonymous.

Really helpful information for residents over the Christmas period. If you need urgent support and access to good food, our funded collaborative Feeding Liverpool has set up this dedicated page. www.feedingliverpool.org/liverpool-ch...

Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and bosses

I'm going to guess you won't hear this on the Laura Kuenssberg show – only the numbers arriving.

The scandal of vapes gets worse bit.ly/3ZEGhcV at some point in 2026 the Circular Economy Minister (yes there really is one) will get some powers to make foreign importers pay something towards recycling them. That’s 800million unrecycled vapes from now.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme” 👏👏👏

Not impressed with transpenine today because there isn't a suitable ramp at #haymarket to train manager has to get me on before boarding me he let on two passengers with large amounts of luggage who of course have put it in the wheelchair space

On International #DisabilityRights Day, we have a simple request for the @EU_Commission and Commissioner @hadjalahbib: - Commit to advancing disability rights. - Commit to update the EU #DisabilityRightsStrategy. #DisabilityDay #IDPD Our open letter: https://buff.ly/4idVfiI

Reaching our full potential in life is important to us all. But Disabled people are often overlooked as leaders due to assumptions about what we can and can’t do. @campaignfdj.bsky.social is led by Disabled people, one of many organisations reminding the world of what’s possible on #IDDP #IDPD

This International Day of Disabled People, DR UK's Mikey Erhardt wrote for @bigissue.com about life for Disabled people in the UK over the last year, as well as the successes of Disabled activism and our demands for the upcoming year. www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...

It's United Nations disabled people's day the logo has 4 colours (not purple, as used by commercial interests). The UN promotes the slogan "Nothing About Us Without Us". In the UK disabled people's concerns are often ignored & overlooked in favour of non-disabled privilege www.un.org/en/observanc...

if it's easier to get assisted dying than a place in a hospice we have royally screwed up

The inpatient ward at the Marie Curie hospice in south Liverpool has been closed since July and staff fear it will never reopen. Workers told us people are suffering painful deaths while there is no hospice serving the entire south of the city. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

We are so close now, thank you to all who have signed and shared. Just one final push to help us to get justice for 3.6 million #WASPI #1950swomen who have been so badly wronged. Please sign and repost our petition now. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The BMA is neutral on the issue of #AssistedDying – meaning we do not support or oppose a change in the law. But we have continued to discuss a number of key issues to be addressed if the law is to change. Read our full response to today's news.

Proponents have been particularly dismissive of those with doubts. It’s striking that key figures pledged there would be no “slippery slope” but as the days have gone on, have admitted they would quite like the other end of the slope, actually. Doubts aren’t so silly after all.

"Oregon is no assisted suicide Utopia. If it is the best model supporters can point to, MPs ought decisively to reject a risky change in the law." Mary Glindon writes: labourlist.org/2024/11/assi...

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I genuinely cannot imagine going into a meeting with a doctor - or social worker, benefit assessor or lawyer - and knowing they will see my life as valuable. And by nature of us all having different life experiences, many other people cannot imagine what it’s like to be anything but valued and safe.

I found this such a telling line from Kim Leadbeater in her @politicshome.bsky.social interview on assisted dying. I imagine there’s some minorities who won’t be reassured by the idea they must just “put faith” in the health and legal system.

Thanks to everyone who has signed our petition for #WASPI compensation. Help us get enough signatures for a debate in Parliament by getting just one friend to sign too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Not sure when it became a thing for people to just casually park fully on the pavement, but it is a big problem that needs addressing www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The most senior civil servant in the Department for Education has told MPs that educating disabled pupils in mainstream schools is usually much cheaper and produces “similar or better outcomes” than using special schools.

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall is at the centre of controversy over her public expression of support for legalising assisted suicide, following a comment she made to the BBC that has horrified campaigners.

Government must take firmer grip of ‘inconsistent’ wheelchair services, says report @johnpring.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-m...

Help us get justice for 3.6 million #WASPI women not properly told about increases to their State Pension age. Retirement plans shattered. #DWP at fault. Sign our petition to get the Government to act. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The Govt will now respond to our petition. But we don’t just want a response, we want a debate. We know 100s of MPs support #WASPI compensation and will make their voices heard. Sign and share our petition to make that debate happen. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Choice & control is a privilege disabled people don't have in things non-disabled people take for granted, whether business or pleasure, such as accessible homes, transport, venues, shops, mainstream holiday accommodation, pavements (due to pavement parking & cycling, café furniture, high kerbs)

Today marks the beginning of UK Disability History Month💥 For us, this is an opportunity to look back on our long struggle for autonomy, against paternalism and pity. How could we not start with the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN)?

"Vaccination has probably saved more lives & is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back & be responsible for the death & disability of myriads of people, particularly children.” Outstanding BBC fact check on RFK 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...