Better late than never! By Kat Hopps, Third Sector Online, 2 April 2012 Mind chief executive Paul Farmer says ministers did

Continue readingSole charity representative quits Work Capability Assessment review panel

A SCOTTISH campaigner will this morning tell the Human Rights Council of the UN that the UK Government is in

Continue readingUK is breaching human rights of disabled people, UN told

BY ANDREW GRICE  The Independent The unemployed would be guaranteed the offer of a job but could lose their benefits for six

Continue readingLabour to try to outflank Tories on the right on welfare – Liam Byrne will tell jobless ‘first strike and you’re out – work or lose six month’s benefit’

UK Uncut podcast #1 – Interview with disability activist Anne Novis MBE by UKUncut This is an article Anne wrote

Continue readingAnne Novis MBE speaks out – calls for an immediate escalation of direct action by disabled people

      Further details about Personal Independence Payment (PIP) announced yesterday reveal who some of the biggest losers under

Continue readingU.K. DWP’s bureaucratic and systematic mugging of disabled people – PIP’s losers revealed

The government’s welfare reforms are having a devastating impact on thousands of sick and disabled Scots – according to evidence

Continue readingNew Citizen’s Advice Scotland report – ‘Welfare Reform: Thousands of sick and disabled Scots facing poverty’

We are all drowning in a sea of Government lies and propaganda! Thank God for organisations like Full Fact and

Continue readingU.K. Government DWP fights off attack on scheme of forced labour – unleashes extraordinary media counter-attack of lies and propaganda

‘Benefits man found hanged, inquest heard’ Thursday 23rd February 2012 A MAN who had “significant worries” was found hanging in

Continue readingDisabled man who hung himself “worried that his benefits had been cut” H.M. Coroner told

By Magnus Gardham MORE than 100,000 sick and disabled Scots face hardship because of the Con-Dems’ tough welfare cuts, a

Continue readingRevealed: 100,000 sick and disabled Scots face hardship because of Con Dem cuts

  A report published today by the Work and Pensions Select Committee concludes that the Government should learn the lessons

Continue readingWork and Pensions Select Committee concludes that Government should learn the lessons of the WCA