Family carers spend an average of 42 hours a week looking after loved ones and almost two thirds feel exhausted or burnt out, according to new research. National disability charity
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A woman and her partner who enslaved her vulnerable disabled husband leaving him to live in squalid conditions have both been jailed for 11 years. Sarah Somerset-How, 49, and George
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Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds has revealed she was given up for adoption when she was two weeks old, as she tracked down her birth mother for a new documentary. The
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One in seven people in the UK faced hunger in the last year due to a lack of money, new research has suggested, with ethnic minorities, disabled people and carers
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The Government must do more to support disabled people to stay in work, campaigners have said. Research released on Tuesday by the Business Disability Forum (BDF), a non-profit membership organisation
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Charges against people subjecting disabled people to hate crime because of their condition is the highest on record, figures have shown. Charges against people accused of committing disability aggravated hate
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At least one in five households with an unpaid carer in some of the most built-up parts of the country have no private transport and have someone who is disabled
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Recommendations for a more joined-up approach to the care of disabled children in care homes must be fully implemented otherwise “appalling harm” suffered by this vulnerable group could be repeated,
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A disabled woman who died days after she was dropped by care home workers was a “victim of a catalogue of catastrophic failures”, her sister has told an inquest. Lyn
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Proposed reforms aimed at getting more people into work have left disabled people feeling anxious and could expose them to bad practice, MPs have heard. Changes outlined by the Government
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