Medical cannabis patients have reported Royal Mail Special Delivery parcels arriving hours after the advertised deadline, tracking systems recording attempts that patients say never happened, redirection instructions being ignored and…
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A disabled attendee was told that Medicine Festival would not admit prescribed cannabis because of its “zero-tolerance policy on illegal drugs”. After weeks of uncertainty and a media enquiry from…
Telephone and face-to-face PIP assessments are now audio recorded automatically unless the claimant opts out, following a major change by the Department for Work and Pensions. The new policy took…
Update, 29 June 2026: Three days after this article was published, the DWP announced that face-to-face and telephone PIP and other disability benefit assessments would be audio-recorded automatically unless the…
In 1981, two American researchers filmed people walking down a New York street and showed the footage to convicted violent offenders. They asked a simple question: who would you attack?…
Since 1 November 2018, doctors on the General Medical Council’s specialist register have been able to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, under Home Office regulations that rescheduled the products…
On 2 June 2026, Mind, Mencap and the National Autistic Society responded to a Supreme Court ruling by calling it “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”. Most…
Reasonable adjustments are often explained in very broad terms. Applicants are told that support is available, or that an employer is committed to inclusion, but they’re not always given a…
Public bodies logged almost 100,000 recruitment adjustment requests, but many couldn’t say how many were actually provided. A Freedom of Information investigation by The Reasonable Adjustment asked 15 public authorities…
People living with inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive conditions are often asked to describe complex symptoms in a short appointment. That can be difficult, especially when…