McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given
Image Courtesy of The Star By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP is calling
Continue readingJared O’Mara calls for action on bullying and harassment by MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 New concerns have been raised about the government’s Disability Confident employment
Continue readingPurple boss raises concerns over Disability Confident accreditation
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 A group of disabled activists – led by a crossbench peer
Continue readingActivists set for ‘David and Goliath’ fight to defeat assisted suicide court bid
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A new report has called for greater awareness of the
Continue readingDisabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to
Continue readingCrossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for
Continue readingMinisters’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech
B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take
Continue readingShock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability
Continue readingQueen’s speech: Government appears to dump Mordaunt’s WCA election promise
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
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 A disabled women says she was left to sit
Continue readingWoman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor
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
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
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
Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’