The largest mental health facility in Europe for young people will be built in Northampton after St Andrew's Hospital was given planning permission for the new building.
1,200 people with a learning disability are dying prematurely in our health service every single year. This is a scandal that must be stopped.
Local MP, Mark Hunter, has today agreed to become an 'Arthritis Champion', supporting Arthritis Research UK in their efforts to find a cure for arthritis while calling for policy change to prevent its onset and transform the lives of people that have musculoskeletal conditions.
We respond to reported comments from Lord Freud about people with a disability and the minimum wage.
Disability hate crime has a profound effect on disabled people's lives To truly tackle it there needs to be an increase in the number of crimes, and incidents, that are reported. Until, the majority of these crimes are reported there will never be a true picture of the prevalence of disability hate crime in this country and nothing will change.
Iain Duncan Smith, planner extraordinaire, aims to have the majority of Universal Credit claims made online. Here's an example of someone who will be completely excluded from claiming because of that:
