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
Continue readingResponse 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
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is
Continue readingUser-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly
Continue readingMother of ESA suicide woman pledges to continue fight for justice
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme
Continue readingRedundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends
Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a
Continue readingYOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship
Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me
Continue readingSpring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and
Continue reading‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving
Continue readingDisabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights
Black Triangle fully supports the disabled arts, so we ask our members to please sign the letter
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 A nurse carrying out a disability benefit assessment fired questions
Continue readingAtos nurse continues PIP assessment while claimant has ‘grand mal’ epilepsy seizures
By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key
Continue readingMinister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The body that oversees the UK’s health and care regulators is
Continue readingRegulators face possible action over failure to discipline lying PIP assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A mental health charity has refused to criticise the government for
Continue readingSamaritans refuses to criticise government over suicide report’s ESA failings
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be
Continue readingCourt orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its
Continue readingExpert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee
Continue readingFury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures
By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people
Continue readingShocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The energy regulator’s “discriminatory” plans to impose only a “very limited”
Continue readingOfgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child
Continue readingWatchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people