Disability Talk

Following the departure of Penny Mordaunt as Minister for Disabled people we welcomed her replacement, Ms. Sarah Newton. Sarah Newton – Minister for Disabled People We also acknowledged the appointment of Esther McVey as Secretary …

This is a staggering and very depressing statistic. First of all let’s look at the definition of self-harming. When someone intentionally damages or injures their body. This can take the form of cutting, burning, hitting, poisoning, …

Bad press is a phrase that does not do justice to the criticisms that are currently being hurled at charities. And quite rightly so. What happened in Haiti beggars belief. And following that story several …

More than a million extra people should be offered antidepressants after the largest study of its kind concluded that they worked, experts have said. What the research found was that antidepressants do work, but some …

Being disabled usually means paying more for day-to-day living. Scope thinks this could be as much as £570 per month extra. For instance here are some of the costs that able bodied people probably never …

Parents of children with autism or all other types of learning difficulties want to use a test case to challenge a law that sidelines families when a child turns 18. Rosa Monckton (above) whose daughter, …

Minnie Driver has become the first celebrity to quit OXFAM in the wake of the sexual misconduct claims. The 48 year old actress , who was one of the charity’s 16 ambassadors, said she was …