Campaigners Call for Boycott Of Workfare Slave Labourers
Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after a long court battle to get those taking
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Parents of Scottish ‘fit for work’ suicide man back call for Iain Duncan Smith prosecution
John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his
Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’
Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands
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Drop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’
The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures
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Cockroft’s fear of PIP reassessment and losing independence as she heads for Rio
One of Britain’s biggest stars from the London 2012 Paralympics has said she is “scared” that she will lose her
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Concern over Mordaunt’s ‘troubling’ appointment as disability minister
Disabled activists say they are “deeply concerned” by the “troubling” decision to appoint an outspoken supporter of legalising assisted suicide
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Owen Smith challenged over disability record
One of the two prospective candidates to challenge UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused over his record
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What does Owen Smith believe?
The right of the PLP are faced with an impossible conundrum. On the one hand, many of them believe that
Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut
A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help
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DPAC joins ILF court case trio in call for Labour to back Corbyn
Three disabled activists who took the government to court in an unsuccessful bid to stop the closure of the Independent
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Tomlinson admits to ignorance about biopsychosocial model
The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his
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Crabb scrapped IDS’s white paper because he ‘didn’t like the look of it’
The new work and pensions secretary scrapped the disability and employment white paper prepared by his predecessor Iain Duncan
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DWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor
A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just
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UN Slams Tories over Human Right Abuses
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
PIP figures fuel concerns over cuts, while activists plan day of action
Only about seven in 10 disabled people who were previously claiming disability living allowance (DLA)
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Tomlinson faces call to resign over PIP harassment of child abuse survivor
A minister has been urged to resign, after he threatened a traumatised child abuse survivor – who is waiting
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First figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’
Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic
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Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently
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Report finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress
Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving
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Peer support ‘could provide impetus for government’s jobs pledge’
Providing support from their peers is an effective way of boosting disabled people’s job prospects, and should be used
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