Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’
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Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in
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Scrapping EHRC disability commissioner role ‘risks sidelining disability’
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 The “rash” decision to scrap the role of disability commissioner
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General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of
DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations
By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard
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Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit
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Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread
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DPAC issues tactical voting plea to save country from five more years of Tory rule
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Anti-cuts activists have called for disabled people to vote
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EHRC confusion after minister appears to scrap disability commissioner role
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 The government appears to have secretly scrapped the post of disability
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Boycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
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Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 Activists hope a new non-partisan online campaign – based
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Concern as minister appoints Tory peer as equality watchdog’s disability lead
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government’s decision to appoint a second consecutive Tory
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Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to
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Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017 Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the
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‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote
By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again
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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the
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PIP investigation: Council probes ‘shockingly poor and dishonest’ assessments
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A local authority is to hear evidence from up to a
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DPO hopes mayoral election will see Manchester lead the way on disability rights
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A leading disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) is hoping to
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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell
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PIP investigation: MPs’ evidence session confirms concerns, but dodges dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported