‘Fit for Work’ Part Two – BBC R4 – The suicide of Mr Kevin Dooley – By Jolyon Jenkins

Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people

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Blame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry

By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show

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DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death

isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial

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Letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Over 100 Mental Health Professionals Re: Scapegoating of Disabled People

The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden

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Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins

’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the

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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda

Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex

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DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st

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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign

Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for

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Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?

BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment

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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest

Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The

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The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023

  ‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke  Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t

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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

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Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of

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New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

Picture Courtesy of Guardian   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused

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Court awards disabled woman ‘aggravated’ damages for ombudsman discrimination

  By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A county court has delivered a devastating judgment against the

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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an

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