Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 A Labour government would replace the “discredited” fitness
Continue readingLabour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions
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’
15 September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ Disabled activists have been promised a seat “at the heart of government” if Jeremy
Continue readingMcDonnell promises DPAC ‘a seat at the heart of government’
11th September 2016 a feature article by – Mo Stewart As a concept, it’s extraordinary. As a political policy, it’s a killer.
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider
Continue readingBenefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in
Continue readingCrisis and resistance in mental health services in England
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
4th August 2016 John Pring A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to
Continue readingDocuments show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy
John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his
Thursday 21st July 2016 1400 hrs BST Dr Tony Cox was today sentenced to 150 hours community service at 0945
Continue readingScottish Campaigner Dr Tony Cox Found Guilty
One of the two prospective candidates to challenge UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused over his record
Continue readingOwen Smith challenged over disability record
The right of the PLP are faced with an impossible conundrum. On the one hand, many of them believe that
The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his
Continue readingTomlinson admits to ignorance about biopsychosocial model
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic
Continue readingFirst figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’
Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently
Continue readingMinisters ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 26th May 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for Iain Duncan Smith to
Continue readingShadow chancellor backs calls to prosecute Iain Duncan Smith over WCA deaths
While the appropriate offence would be Misconduct in Public Office we would like share with you the following complaint to Northumbria
Continue readingBenefit Deaths: North East England Man Puts in Complaint to Northumbria Police
No civilian has any comprehension of life in British military forces, or the impact of the removal of that