Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
13th October 2016 By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that
Continue readingMSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 The government has confirmed that sick and disabled people who will
Continue readingTory conference: PIP claimants will not be spared retests, DWP admits
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 21st 2016 The sister of a man driven to suicide
Continue reading‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal
September 17th By George Berger for DPAC http://dpac.uk.net/2016/09/two-apparent-irregularities-involving-unum-atos-and-dwp/ Debbie Jolly, Jonathan Rutherford, and Mo Stewart have discussed the influence
Continue readingTwo Apparent Irregularities Involving UNUM, ATOS, And DWP
15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ A string of activists, academics, politicians and journalists have welcomed the publication of a new
Continue readingDisabled researcher’s book exposes ‘corporate demolition of welfare state’
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider
Continue readingBenefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in
Continue readingCrisis and resistance in mental health services in England
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
August 25th 2016 Paralympians heading to Rio next week have lost their Motability vehicles after being reassessed as part of
Continue readingGovernment ‘has stripped Paralympians of their Motability vehicles’
11th August 2016 The Arts Council has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to the disability arts movement in
Continue readingArts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation
11th August 2016 Disabled activists are to hold a week of action to coincide with the start of the Rio
Continue readingDPAC will use Paralympics to highlight austerity impact in week of action
11th August 2016 A nurse has been struck off after pretending that she had assessed disabled people for their eligibility
Continue readingAtos nurse struck off over PIP assessment lies
11th August 2016 John Pring DWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse The Department
Continue readingDWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse
4th August 2016 John Pring A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to
Continue readingDocuments show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy
John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his
One of Britain’s biggest stars from the London 2012 Paralympics has said she is “scared” that she will lose her
Continue readingCockroft’s fear of PIP reassessment and losing independence as she heads for Rio
Since the Channel 4 Paralympics trailer was unveiled last week, the reaction has been almost universally positive. And understandably so.
Continue readingI love Channel 4’s Paralympics advert. But we can’t all be superhumans
A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just
Continue readingDWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor
Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic
Continue readingFirst figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’