Welfare Reform – Page 5 – Black Triangle Campaign

Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many

Continue readingMinisters ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

Atos, Capita, DRUK, DWP, Inclusion London, Labour Party, Neil Coyle, Work and Pensions Select Committee

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on

Continue readingLabour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

Atos, Capita, DWP, Here2Support, MHRN, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, Roy Bard

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using

Continue readingDWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

Anne Novis, Care Act, Disability Justice Project, Inclusion London

DPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2107 A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has intervened in a “hugely significant”

Continue readingDPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case

Atos, Capita, DWP, Penny Mourdant

Recordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma

Continue readingRecordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts

DRUK, DWP, Jared O'Mara, Tories, Universal Credit

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher

Continue readingUniversal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

DWP, National AIDS Trust, PIP, River House

People living with HIV ‘have been failed by PIP’

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 People with HIV have been failed by the government’s

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Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DWP, ICO Information Commissioners Office, NMC, PIP

PIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 The government and its private sector contractors are refusing to investigate

Continue readingPIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act

Bob Williams Findlay, Breakthrough UK, Damien Green, DRUK, End The Awkward campaign., Hardest Hit, New Philanthropy Capital, Scope

Scope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’

July 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell

Continue readingScope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’

Alex Williams, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Aspire, Disability Confident, Dr Lisa Cameron SNP MP, DRUK, EHRC, Green Paper, Jared O'Mara, Philip Connolly, Two Ticks

Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 21st July 2017 A senior civil servant has admitted to MPs and peers that

Continue readingSenior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

EHCP, Independant Living Alternatives, Social Care

Concerns over council’s post-18 support after ombudsman ruling

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 A local authority is facing claims that it is breaching the rights

Continue readingConcerns over council’s post-18 support after ombudsman ruling

Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, HOC, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, Winvisible

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given

Continue readingMcDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

Atos, Dept of Transport, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, EHRC, Ellen Clifford

DPAC set for week of protests over social care, Atos and access to transport

July 14, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 Disabled activists are set to lobby MPs this week on the

Continue readingDPAC set for week of protests over social care, Atos and access to transport

Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion Scotland, Linda Burnip, ROFA, UNCRPD, United Nations

Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

July 14, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of

Continue readingGovernment’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

DRUK, DWP, Motobility, Muscular Dystrophy UK, PIP

PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights

July 8, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 More than half of those disabled people previously eligible

Continue readingPIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights

Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

July 8, 2017 JJ

Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused

Continue readingNew disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

Action On Disability, Breakthrough UK, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, Disability Law Hub, Disability Wales, DRUK, Inclusion Scotland, Independant lives, Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living, LIz Sayce, Real, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Spinal Injuries Association, Tories, UN, UNCRPD, York Independant Living Network

Disabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A new report has called for greater awareness of the

Continue readingDisabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit

Conservatives, DWP, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Lord Colin Low

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to

Continue readingCrossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

Conservatives, DWP, Green Paper, Penny Mordaunt, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Ministers’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for

Continue readingMinisters’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech

CRPD, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

June 30, 2017 JJ

B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government

Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

Recommended Web Sites

'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state

Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P

AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”

Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.

Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.

ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme

Benefits Claimants Fight Back

Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot

Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle

Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog

Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.

Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.

Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011

Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future

Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for

Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism

Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.

DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.

Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation

Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.

Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.

Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.

Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!

Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report

soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …

Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment

The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout

The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”

The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”

The Void Narking off the state since 2005

Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.

Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)

Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.

Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot

Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance

YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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