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Potential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed

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From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’

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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

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By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the

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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention

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  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell

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Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017   Disabled activists have explained why they took to the

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#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations

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Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had

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Watchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence

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By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its

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‘Inspired by ‘I, Daniel Blake’ disabled protesters make ‘Declaration of Humanity’ in Seoul

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By Ahn Young-choon, Staff reporter     Disabled people in wheelchairs spraypaint their names as a declaration of their humanity,

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Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The sister of a disabled man who died after being

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Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over

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Spartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work,

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National DPOs forced to withdraw report sent to UN over benefit deaths evidence

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three national disabled people’s organisations have withdrawn a report they submitted

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Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry

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By John  Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian

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UN report failure on benefit deaths by national DPOs ‘is extreme insult to activists’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017   A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by

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MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report

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        By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers

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