Subject: Disabilities

24.11.23

Family Court Files

Family Court Files: inside the secretive part of the justice system

After two decades as a court reporter, a journalist is able to report for the first time on decisions that can determine children’s futures, thanks to a family courts transparency pilot

23.01.23

Our Impact

Government promises crackdown on the energy companies mistreating vulnerable customers

Five-point plan comes after the Bureau revealed the thousands of vulnerable people across Great Britain going without gas and electricity

19.12.22

Our Impact

Investigating home adaptations: Did we make a difference?

This year the Bureau looked into how disabled people had been left trapped in inadequate homes waiting for vital adaptations

16.12.22

Health Inequality

Thousands of vulnerable people cut off from gas and electricity for days at a time

Stark figures of those forced to 'self-disconnect' only paint fraction of the picture as cost-of-living crisis takes hold

07.10.22

The Housing Crisis

Lack of affordable lets leaves families with little left to live on

Three years since the Bureau first investigated, housing benefit rates still fall short across the country

28.04.22

Local Power

Cornwall to Newcastle: children with disabilities forced to travel hundreds of miles for school

The desperately underfunded special educational needs and disabilities system is having grave consequences for young people and plunging councils further into record debt

05.04.22

Health Inequality

Disabled people trapped waiting years for vital home adaptations

Thousands of disabled people across the UK are waiting months to be assessed for vital adaptations to their home, and years to get the work done, the Bureau has found

13.07.21

Is Work Working?

Revealed: Thousands of care jobs pay below living wage despite promises

Many councils have pledged to pay higher rates for home care, but the Bureau has analysed thousands of job adverts and care contracts and found jobs across Britain paid less than the living wage

10.05.21

Health Inequality

Revealed: Thousands more deaths in home care during pandemic

At least 25,000 people who received care in their own homes died during the pandemic, with reported deaths doubling in many areas

Family Court Files: inside the secretive part of the justice system

Government promises crackdown on the energy companies mistreating vulnerable customers

Investigating home adaptations: Did we make a difference?

Thousands of vulnerable people cut off from gas and electricity for days at a time

Lack of affordable lets leaves families with little left to live on

Cornwall to Newcastle: children with disabilities forced to travel hundreds of miles for school

Disabled people trapped waiting years for vital home adaptations

Revealed: Thousands of care jobs pay below living wage despite promises

Revealed: Thousands more deaths in home care during pandemic

Corporations

Food and Drugs

Justice

Human Rights

PR and Spin

State Scrutiny

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