DWP’s own figures show work a serious health and suicide risk for young disabled claimants
This article was updated at 12am 01/06/2026 to better reflect DWP figures. As the Labour government's much-touted Milburn review calls...
Hannah became a Canary writer (much to her ongoing surprise!) in 2023. She had participated in the Canary's Amplify training and mentorship scheme throughout 2022. During her time on the scheme, she learnt the fundamentals of journalism and had her first experience of a (virtual) newsroom. As a climate activist, Hannah has taken non-violent direct action against multiple planet-wrecking corporations. When her health is better, she plans to do far more. She has also co-organised grassroots campaigns against local fossil fuel projects. Hannah completed an MA in Investigative Reporting at Birkbeck University in 2017. She hoped to develop her research and writing skills to put to use within the movement for climate justice. Since her degree, when her health has allowed, she has used these skills to help local groups investigate, expose and hold exploitative industries to account. Her favourite headline of all time (though not hers) channels feminist writer Flavia Dzodan's famous quote in the context of calls for climate justice: My environmentalism will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit. Hannah wants to be the kind of environmental journalist who centres local and international struggles for social justice and liberation. She feels these are inextricably linked to both the causes and solutions to the climate and ecological crises and integral to building a more equitable world. In this particularly, she knows she still has a lot to learn.
This article was updated at 12am 01/06/2026 to better reflect DWP figures. As the Labour government's much-touted Milburn review calls...
As attention on prospective Labour leader (and, for that matter, prospective Labour MP) Andy Burnham mounts, caution is necessary. Whilst...
Ministers are regularly holding off-the-record meetings with the CEOs and senior staff of England and Wales’ scandal-riddled privatised water and...
Far be it for the cesspit media to take a day off from demonising migrant communities. The eve before voters...
A deaf council worker has turned the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) fiscal conservative narrative around rising costs of...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly started looking for suppliers to provide covert surveillance cameras for its...
Access to Work failures rumble on, and now the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has all but outright admitted...
A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) minister has refused to rule out scrapping the health element of Universal Credit...
The Telegraph has been peddling dubious-sounding polling that claims voters “across the political spectrum” back Department for Work and Pensions...
The Resolution Foundation has continued its descent into a cronyist benefit-cutting architect for the ableist Labour government. The supposedly progressive...
Organisations specialising in support for neurodivergent employees are advertising their services to people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) through the...
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Access to Work (AtW) scheme has been referring people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis...
Outrage merchant the Daily Mail is at it again farming disability hate for clicks. And as has become its persistent...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced its flagship new “Youth Jobs Grant” scheme in March. It did so...
An impassioned parliamentary debate has shone a spotlight on a group of “not rare”, just “rarely diagnosed”, yet life-threatening chronic,...
DWP — The Resolution Foundation is the latest to jump on the disabled young people-bashing bandwagon. On Tuesday 24 March,...
Shadow Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) boss Helen Whately couldn’t help but get in the Tories’ punches on disabled...
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