Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
Continue readingPotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation
Continue readingDWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for
Continue readingMaximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions
Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies
Continue readingG4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over
Continue readingQuestions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy
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
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in
Continue readingCoroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 A regulatory body has received more than 1,600 complaints
Continue readingPIP INVESTIGATION: Regulator receives ‘more than 1,600 complaints about assessors’
Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write
By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN 1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of
Continue readingDr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’
By John Pring Disability News Service October 28th 2016 A leading psychiatrist who helped the government draft guidance that
Continue readingProfessors’ silence after DWP waters down their guidance on preventing WCA suicides
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 28th 2016 A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the
Continue reading‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death
By John Pring Disability News Service September 29th 2016 A disabled benefit claimant is set to lodge a complaint with
Continue readingDWP sends woman’s confidential WCA report to privacy campaigner
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such
Continue readingDWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks
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
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’
15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ “Very disturbing” new government figures show a steep fall in the proportion of
Continue readingESA figures show ‘very disturbing’ drop in number placed in support group
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
11th August 2016 A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap
Continue readingCharity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap