Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
Disabled campaigners are hoping a new government taskforce will lead to apprenticeships becoming more accessible to disabled people, despite concerns
Continue readingApprenticeship taskforce welcomed, despite concerns over membership
A pioneering programme backed by £5 million of lottery cash has issued a call for user-led teams across the
Continue readingPioneering £5 million DRILL programme sends out first call for funding bids
The new work and pensions secretary has suggested the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap will face lengthy
Continue readingCrabb hints at lengthy delays to manifesto pledge on disability jobs gap
Hundreds of disabled people are believed to have fallen victim to a “manipulative” fraudster who posed as a lawyer to
Continue readingJailed conman who targeted disabled people ‘defrauded hundreds’
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking
Continue readingDWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline
Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights
The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns
Continue reading‘Conflict of interest’ lawyer to chair EHRC, as minister ignores MPs’ concerns
The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year
Continue readingGovernment set to slash equality watchdog’s budget… again
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its
Continue readingLeonard Cheshire set to scrap disabled-only team over budget black hole
Black Triangle’s List of Deaths Linked to Benefit Loss arising from Welfare Reforms Wednesday 20th October 2015 Please note: Although
Study’s authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five … Continue readingUK child death rate among worst in western Europe, say experts
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
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract … Continue readingBlack Triangle Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract
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
The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws … Continue readingPauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past
Eight union leaders attack Labour’s newly promoted employment spokeswoman for ‘bashing the victims of failure’ … Continue readingEight Trades Union general secretaries attack Rachel Reeves for her ‘tougher than Tories’ welfare pledge
An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example … Continue reading‘Can’t work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor’ ~ An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example
The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border … Continue readingHow the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border
‘Genetically poor’ folk are returning food from the foodbank because they cannot afford to heat it up … Continue readingIt’s immoral to have food banks in one of the world’s richest countries: “These ‘genetically poor’ folk are returning food because they cannot afford to heat it up”