All news on the topic: Disability

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed over discriminatory messages they sent about Katie Price’s son Harvey

Jill Allen-King, 83, could face a wait of up to two years for her next companion when her beloved dog Jagger, 11, is retired from service - and she fears more than 1,000 people are facing similar delays

Curtis, 15, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and uses a wheelchair, was waiting to get the bus home on the evening of April 8 with his friend

Labour claimed billions lost to benefit error and fraud could’ve paid for another cost of living payment, but we need to stop pitting the most vulnerable against each other

From April 10, millions of Brits on benefits and Universal Credit will receive a payment boost to keep in line with September's inflation rate of 10.1% - read the full list here

Lisa Halley completed a series of hair-raising challenges and despite being almost totally blind and profoundly deaf, she has not let her disabilities stop her from taking on breathtaking feats

Latest figures from the NHS show that children are three times more likely than adults to be facing waiting times of over a year for community treatments for things like speech therapy

I’ve written extensively on much I hate well-known actors winning awards for sitting in wheelchairs and playing roles where being disabled is the worst possible thing someone can be

Katie Elliot, 20, felt ashamed of how she looked after she lost her eye aged four. She has worn a prosthetic for the last 15 years but is now finding the confidence to be seen without one

Twelve months ago the Government launched UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide sanctuary to those escaping war - with more than 200,000 people staying with host families and putting down new roots

Elizabeth Corbett rushed home after a panicked FaceTime call from her children, aged nine and 11, saying their dad wouldn’t wake up, only to find she was blocked from entering her house by paramedics

Aboli Jarit has renal rickets; a syndrome that combines deformity of the bones and chronic renal disease, which stunted her growth at 3ft 4ins, and means she cannot walk

The Government released the SEND plan: right support, right place, right time recently. The trouble is, it doesn’t prioritise improving provision and funding is limited

The DWP says the online application service is currently only being offered to 60 new claimants each day who call the PIP phone line to start their application

When everyone was pushed into shock lockdown on March 23rd, 2020, we’d already been in it for at least a week

Disability advocate Maayan Ziv spoke about a recent incident on an Air Canada flight when she claimed that a flight attendant wouldn't properly store her wheelchair

Tiny triplets Rubi-Rose, Payton Jane and Porscha-Mae Hopkins weighed 1.284kg (2.83lb) when they were born in February 2021 at just 22 weeks and five days

Auriol Grey, 49, was jailed for three years after telling 77-year-old cyclist Celia Ward to "get off the f****** pavement" before the pensioner veered into the road and was fatally hit by a car

The Government intends to use Personal Independence Payments, a benefit designed to help us cover extra living costs as Disabled people, as the passport for additional Universal Credit money

As ever, Disabled people are invisible from the headlines, but not from the story - because around a third of us live in poverty

Fire captain Adam Di Sarro, from Naples, Florida, US, is launching legal action against Artificial Tears manufacturers after he was infected with a "rare strain" of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Video of the altercation outside the BSB bar in Bristol's waterfront district has horrified many on social media, describing the man's actions as "honestly the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen"

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown had been in London to attend a Motability event at the House of Lords when she was stuck on the fourth floor of a hotel in the middle of a fire alarm

People in their final year of life will be able to get fast-tracked access to Personal Independent Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA) from April 3

Report found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness have experienced bullying. Disability was also the most recurring tribunal claim brought against the Met in recent years