Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving
Continue readingDisabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights
The shocking rise of childhood poverty(UK data), with all its associated harms, which will take us back 20 years. From
Continue readingScottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head
Continue readingLabour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce
Continue readingUN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit
Continue readingBenefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’
By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its
Continue readingWatchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence
Re: #Bafta #IDanielBlake #KenLoach – Comment of the year – By Fiona Robertson ‘The one and only famous person outside
Continue readingFiona Robertson SNP on Trump, protest and U.K. disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three national disabled people’s organisations have withdrawn a report they submitted
Continue readingNational DPOs forced to withdraw report sent to UN over benefit deaths evidence
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers
Continue readingMPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report