Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against
Continue readingDisabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the
Continue readingMental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving
Continue readingDisabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights
By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 A government climbdown over new disability benefit rules that were found
Continue readingDWP U-turns on PIP mobility rules that were based on ‘unsupported opinions’
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint
Continue readingBacklash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee
Continue readingFury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures
By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people
Continue readingShocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child
Continue readingWatchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her
Continue readingNew minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 A new handbook on direct action, a national day of action
Continue readingSummit hears calls on direct action, assessment boycotts and hate crime
By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Disabled people and their organisations will “determine” and “implement” the
Continue readingDisabled people ‘will go into government alongside Labour’, says McDonnell
The shocking rise of childhood poverty(UK data), with all its associated harms, which will take us back 20 years. From
Continue readingScottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts
By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning
Continue readingUK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt
By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Organisers of a national “summit meeting” of disabled people’s organisations
Continue readingNational summit set to build new alliances and ‘reinvigorate’ the movement
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government
Continue readingSNP hears ‘justice for the dead’ demand as it backs call to implement UN report
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has admitted that the system
Continue readingTory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she
Continue readingLabour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce
Continue readingUN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’