Welfare Checks: What to Do If You Fear Someone Is in Trouble
Worried about someone who has disappeared online or sent an unusual message? Learn when to request a UK welfare check, even without their address.
Removing Financial Support For Anxiety and ADHD Raises Serious Equality and Human Rights Concerns
Helen Whately has called for greater support instead of benefits for anxiety and ADHD. We examine PIP reform, therapy, disability, equality and human rights.
Anthropic AI
The Anthropic AI controversy has become a global debate about who controls powerful artificial intelligence. We examine President Donald Trump’s order against Anthropic, the Pentagon dispute over Claude, Elon Musk’s warnings about AI, autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, human rights, vulnerable people and the implications for disabled communities.
Disability-Based Violence: Why Global Concern Is Growing as the UN CRPD Develops New Guidelines
Disability-based violence is receiving growing international attention as the UN CRPD develops new guidelines to identify and address violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect, institutional harm and barriers to justice affecting disabled people worldwide.
UN CRPD 35th Session 2026, Twenty Years of Disability Rights
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has opened its historic 35th Session from 12–27 August 2026, reviewing Chile, Lithuania, Qatar, Slovakia and Sri Lanka during the 20th anniversary year of the UN CRPD. We examine emerging concerns around independent living, psychiatric care, legal capacity, inclusive education, accessibility, digital inclusion, violence against disabled women and the future of global disability rights.
Welsh Government Criticises PIP Review Co-Production: Why Wales Is Calling for a Disabled-Led Alternative
The Welsh Government has raised significant concerns about co-production in the UK-wide Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), calling for an independent disabled-led approach to future disability benefit reform. We examine what genuine co-production means, why Wales is challenging the current process, disability rights, safeguarding, the Social Model of Disability and whether PIP could eventually be devolved to Wales.
When Does PIP Coaching Become Exploitation?
A disability-benefits website reported as offering £49.99 PIP coaching has sparked questions about vulnerable claimants, paid benefits advice, consumer protection and regulation. We examine why nobody can guarantee PIP, the ethics of charging people in financial hardship for benefits guidance, and why the Government should consider stronger safeguards for commercial disability-benefit services.
Patient Deaths, Delayed Cancer Diagnoses and NHS Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust have raised serious allegations of patient deaths, A&E corridor care, delayed cancer diagnoses, staffing pressures and concerns over incident reporting. We examine NHS accountability, patient safety, whistleblower protections, the Duty of Candour and why repeated warnings must never be ignored.
The Rise of Hostile Media Coverage Targeting Disabled People
The rise of hostile media narratives surrounding disabled people is fuelling concerns about stigma, safeguarding and welfare reform. This article examines how negative coverage of disability benefits can influence public attitudes, explores failures in health, social care and employment policy, explains the true position of the upcoming PIP overhaul and Timms Review, and asks whether disabled people are being blamed for systemic failures beyond their control.
The Hidden Violence Disabled Children Face Worldwide
DRI’s August 2026 report exposes the hidden violence, neglect, restraint and institutional abuse faced by disabled children worldwide. Explore the findings of safeguarding failures.