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

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From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’

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DWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation

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

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  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell

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#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

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Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had

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Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry

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By John  Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian

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MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report

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        By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers

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Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

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Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General   As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write

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Debbie Jolly: a ‘force for good’ and a passionate social model advocate

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  By John Pring Disability News Service November 17th 2016 Activists have paid tribute to Debbie Jolly, a central figure

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McDonnell pledges Labour will force government to debate UN ‘rights violations’ report

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By John Pring  Disability News Service Novemeber 17th 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has promised that the government will be dragged

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Green refuses three times to apologise to Scotland for harm of benefit reforms

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By John Pring Disability News Service November 10th 2016   The work and pensions secretary Damian Green has refused three

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UN’s conclusion that UK violated disability rights is ‘vindication’ for activists

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday November 10th 2016 Disabled activists who persuaded the United Nations (UN) to investigate

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Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after

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Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

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By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN  1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of

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Professors’ silence after DWP waters down their guidance on preventing WCA suicides

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 28th 2016   A leading psychiatrist who helped the government draft guidance that

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