Ministers’ failures mean disabled people in UK face growing poverty risk – report

Watchdog says little progress made on recommendations of 2016 report that said government violated disabled people's rights

Disabled people in the UK face worsening discrimination and a growing risk of poverty as a result of government failures to tackle problems ranging from welfare benefits to employment, according to a human rights watchdog.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said successive UK governments had made little or no progress in addressing 11 policy recommendations identified by United Nations investigators in a highly critical report in 2016, which accused ministers of systematic violations" of disabled people's rights.