The government hopes a new strategy will help more disabled people become local councillors and MPs.
The £1 million-a-year package of six proposals includes a new Access to Elected Office Fund to help would-be disabled politicians meet the extra disability-related costs of running for office.
The government also wants to change attitudes about disabled politicians among the [...]
Disability organisations have greeted the government’s new welfare reform bill with a mixture of caution and outright hostility.
The bill will see disability living allowance (DLA) replaced by a new personal independence payment (PIP), with a new assessment to test eligibility. The government plans to cut spending on the benefit for working-age recipients by a fifth [...]
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