No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t
Continue readingNo Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t
Continue readingNo Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why
Continue readingMPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats
Image Courtesy of The Mirror By John Pring Disability New Service 11th January 2018 The minister for disabled people
Continue readingMinister hid judges’ criticism of McVey from MPs, hours after shock appointment
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint
Continue readingBacklash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 Disabled campaigners have criticised the decision to award an OBE
Continue readingOBE for Access to Work boss is ‘further slap in the face’ for disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject
Continue readingMore than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 A nurse carrying out a disability benefit assessment fired questions
Continue readingAtos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 Only about a third of local authorities have taken action to
Continue readingCouncils’ response to taxi discrimination laws has been ‘inadequate’, says activist
By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key
Continue readingMinister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The body that oversees the UK’s health and care regulators is
Continue readingRegulators face possible action over failure to discipline lying PIP assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A disabled refugee who was murdered after years of racist
Continue readingMurdered disabled refugee ‘was repeatedly failed by council and police’
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A mental health charity has refused to criticise the government for
Continue readingSamaritans refuses to criticise government over suicide report’s ESA failings
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be
Continue readingCourt orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its
Continue readingExpert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee
Continue readingFury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures
Benefit assessments – exemption to protect vulnerable patients There is a great deal of evidence about the profound distress
Continue readingPIP & ESA Benefit Exemptions from Face to Face Assessments
By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people
Continue readingShocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide
Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs
Continue readingAssessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The energy regulator’s “discriminatory” plans to impose only a “very limited”
Continue readingOfgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child
Continue readingWatchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people