#DavidClapson #SanctionsDeaths: IDS rejects three key calls from MPs on sanctions safety
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims. … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system
Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if
Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’ By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people
Continue readingQueen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come
‘The Disability Audit: the eight coalition policies that have hit disabled people’ By Frances Ryan New Statesman After looking in detail at
23 April 2015 By John Pring, Disability News Service ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos Labour’s launch of its
Continue readingELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability mini-manifesto chaos
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go
Continue readingGo ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT
By Rob McDowall A raft of changes introduced by the Conservative Lib-Dem Coalition has once again made ‘welfare’ and ‘benefits’
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting … Continue readingPersonal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: ‘The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy
Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival … Continue readingLorraine from Glasgow had cancer but was forced to starve and rely on the foodbank by DWP-Atos who over-ruled her doctors and declared her ‘fit-for-work’
We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies … Continue readingAt last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies
“Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland.” … Continue readingDeclaration of Radical Independence
My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014. … Continue readingThe Long Journey to Yes