Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
The shocking rise of childhood poverty(UK data), with all its associated harms, which will take us back 20 years. From
Continue readingScottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts
Reblogged from Morning Star The government is acting like an abusive partner with claimants, whom it can beat at
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Continue readingConcerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government
Continue readingSNP hears ‘justice for the dead’ demand as it backs call to implement UN report
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the
Continue readingLabour conference: Abrahams pledges ‘supportive and enabling’ social security system
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce
Continue readingUN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with
Continue readingDPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN
By Steven Naysmith http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15508062.UK_Government_cuts_driving_disabled_people_into_poverty__key_UN_committee_says/ Reblogged DISABLED people are dying as a result of austerity measures and discrimination, campaigners have
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of
Continue readingRebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and
Continue readingAnger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based
Continue readingVote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have
Continue readingDWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
Continue readingBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of