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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 the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

By John Pring Disability News Service  14th June 2017 Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and optimism to a general election that saw the Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority. Some believe that a resurgent Labour party … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservative Disability Group, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Equal Lives, Shaping our Lives, Spartacus Network, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, Society | Leave a reply

Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders

By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into work activity   “Very dangerous” rules are forcing severely-ill people applying for the government’s new universal credit to look for jobs … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GMC, GP, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, Labour Party, Penny Mourdant, SNP, Suicide Crisis, Tories, Tory, UC, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | 8 Replies

‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal

By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan   Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has left her unable to cope Kathy Mohan, who confronted Theresa May during an election walkabout in Abingdon. Photograph: Ben Gurr … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CH5, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, General Election, Human Rights, Learning Disability England, PIP, Theresa May, UKCRPD, UN, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

By John  Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’ failure to make the reasonable adjustments that would make the court process accessible to them, according to a disabled human … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equal Treatment Bench Book, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Reasonable Adjustments, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

  By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017   Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of “hypocrisy” after it promised to end the “burning injustices” facing mental health service-users. Both groups pointed out that Conservative social … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Mental Health UK, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, MHRN, Recovery in the Bin, UKCRPD | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, IPS, John Pring, Labour, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard employer of disabled people under its own much-criticised scheme, despite being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business Disability Forum, Civil Service, Conservatives, Damien Green, David Gillon, Disability Confident, DWP, UKCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom, that the Conservative Party are masters of controlling narrative.  Although, much of the groundwork was done during Tony Blair’s days … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog, Conservatives, Fiona Robertson, Human Rights, SNP, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged #GE2017, Benefit Cap, Benefit Cuts, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, benefits sanctions, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Scotland, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Pushed to the Brink

By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of claimants’ mental health, causing an increase in suicidal feelings Of late, there have been great strides made regarding the understanding … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Maximus, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths

  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017   Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the UK’s progress on implementing the disability rights convention may be ignoring links between the government’s welfare reforms and the deaths … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Atos, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed

From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’ will get up to £1,500 less each year than existing recipients. Anyone who feels able to work and does so … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, UNCRPD, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the government’s “fitness for work” process has caused a deterioration in many people’s mental health which they have failed to recover … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Scotland, Scottish politics, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention

  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell a UN committee the different ways in which the UK government has been breaching the UN Convention on the Rights … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Black Mental Health UK, Black Triangle Campaign, British Deaf Association, Disability Action NI, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Equal Lives, European Disability Forum, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, International Disability Alliance, LIz Sayce, People First Scotland, ROFA, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Human rights, John Pring, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the streets around parliament to protest at the government’s latest cuts to disability benefits. The protest, organised by Disabled People Against … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour Party, MHRN, PIP, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, PIP, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations

Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, MHRN, NHS, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Suicide Crisis, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Watchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence

By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its report to the UN on the implementation of its disability convention, despite omitting vital information that links government ministers with … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

  By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The sister of a disabled man who died after being left destitute by having his benefits sanctioned has launched a high court legal challenge over a coroner’s refusal to hold … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Fiona Robertson SNP on Trump, protest and U.K. disabled people

Re: #Bafta #IDanielBlake #KenLoach – Comment of the year – By Fiona Robertson ‘The one and only famous person outside of the disability community to use his privilege to take on the government. We are being killed by the government. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Cradle2Grave Campaign, CRPD, EHRC, Fiona Robertson, Human Rights, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Politics, Poverty, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

National DPOs forced to withdraw report sent to UN over benefit deaths evidence

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three national disabled people’s organisations have withdrawn a report they submitted to the United Nations, after admitting that it failed to speak out strongly enough on links between the government’s welfare … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Equal Lives, Future Events & Protests, Human Rights, Inclusion Scotland, ROFA, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

UN report failure on benefit deaths by national DPOs ‘is extreme insult to activists’

  By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017   A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by three national disabled people’s organisations has been criticised for failing to speak out strongly enough on the links between the … Continue reading →

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Posted in CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, UN | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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