Rebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of
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Tag: Human rights
Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and
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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
Nobody is Unfit for Work
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
Vote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based
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PIP suicide woman’s sister blames ‘barbaric’ system for her death
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The sister of a disabled woman who she believes was driven
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‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
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
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Disabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 A disabled mother-of-five has described how having to fight the courts
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’
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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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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Pushed to the Brink
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of