The Lawns - Care Home

Rejecting the world’s dumbest idiom.

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims,…

A great-granddaughter joins the dynasty

Anna Brychan MS, Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language

I had worked for 25 years, married and started a family. But a crisis at the supermarket reminded me there was something missing from my life

besity, liver disease, diabetes, and cancer are all chronic diseases that inflict misery across millions of patients. Imagine if bacteria could be to

A learning disability is lifelong. It doesn't change, so why are people asked to prove it again and again? That’s why Mencap is calling for an end to unnecessary PIP reassessments for people with a le...

Letters: Readers respond to John Harris’s article on the need to consider disabled people of working age when reforming the care system

Many years ago in Mexico City, a friend and I came across a stall selling magnetic health bracelets. My friend (a scientist) asked the stal...

Last month the final report of the Thirlwall inquiry was published.1 The inquiry investigated the events at the Countess of Chester Hospital that surrounded the arrest and subsequent conviction of pae...

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Exclusive: Letter to government says changes will unfairly remove legal protections for children in England

Letter: Campaigners and Send parents including Chris Packham and Sally Phillips urge ministers to work with families and organisations to preserve individual provision and improve accountability in th...

The Conservative party has refused to explain why it blocked Disability News Service (DNS) from receiving its press releases at its annual conference, and why it refuses to answer questions on disa…

This blog examines why we should include public services in our understanding of living standards, and why taxation is important for gender equality.

Dr Kavita Bickford-Solder hears from Natalie Lauren, producer of 'Unauthorised Absence', a short film exploring school-related distress and attendance difficulties; plus writer Jo Clayton.

A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.

Overhaul of special education in England could unravel, thinktank finds, because of ‘use it before you lose it’ dynamic

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.