‘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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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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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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DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports

  By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018   Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had

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DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent

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Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’

By John Pring  Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it

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DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

  By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart

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Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new

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