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At least 240 internal reviews have been launched since 2020 into cases of serious harm where there has been an allegation that the DWP’s actions may have contributed to a person’s death or harm, the report found. The Department for Work and Pensions requires “deep-rooted culture change” to prevent more deaths of vulnerable benefit claimants, MPs have said.

More than 60,000 disabled households in England faced homelessness last year, an increase of nearly 75% since 2019, official figures show. Analysis of government data by the homelessness charity Crisis also shows the amount of social housing given to disabled people has gone down.

The RNIB’s latest Voice of the Customer survey and focus groups explored the experiences of blind and partially sighted women. In this report – the first in a series on women with sight loss – they focus on navigating motherhood with sight loss.

A vulnerable autistic schoolboy “could have died” after being left on a locked school bus for more than two hours, his mother said. Jennifer Evans said her 12-year-old son Thomas was only discovered when he sounded the horn.

Wendy Daunt was recognised in the New Year Honours for services to the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby and the deaf community. The brief interaction ended with gasps in the room, according to eyewitnesses, when Ms Daunt asked, and received, a hug from the prince.