EHRC Chair Baroness Falkner

EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing

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‘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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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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The PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for

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Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive

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Government’s suicide prevention boss refuses to call for action on ESA risk stats

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The head of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy has refused

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MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why

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Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

    By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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