Welfare Reform – Page 7 – Black Triangle Campaign

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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

April 21, 2017 JJ

By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,

Continue readingVoting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

Black Triangle News, Blog, Capita, Independant, James Moore

There are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

April 21, 2017 JJ

Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number

Continue readingThere are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Maximus, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Pushed to the Brink

April 14, 2017 JJ

By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of

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Baroness Bakewell, Baroness Jane Campbell, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mourdant, PIP

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

March 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again

Continue reading‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Gail Ward, GMCDP Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Green Paper, Inclusion London, JCP, Maximus, Spartacus Network, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living

DWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper

March 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation

Continue readingDWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper

DWP, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP

Safety and supervision ruling could mean PIP for many more claimants

March 29, 2017 JJ

Tuesday 28th March 2017 A panel of upper tribunal judges has made a decision relating to safety and

Continue readingSafety and supervision ruling could mean PIP for many more claimants

Conservatives, Damien Green, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

March 17, 2017 JJ

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

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

Atos, Capita, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Solutions West Midlands, DWP, Labour Party, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP

PIP investigation: Council probes ‘shockingly poor and dishonest’ assessments

March 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A local authority is to hear evidence from up to a

Continue readingPIP investigation: Council probes ‘shockingly poor and dishonest’ assessments

Allfie, Black Mental Health UK, Black Triangle Campaign, British Deaf Association, Disability Action NI, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Equal Lives, European Disability Forum, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, International Disability Alliance, LIz Sayce, People First Scotland, ROFA, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations

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

March 17, 2017 JJ

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

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

Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Inclusion Scotland, SNP

Scottish Government appeal for disabled people to join experience panels

March 16, 2017 JJ

Please see information below about two social security initiatives currently underway. We would appreciate your help and support to promote

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Atos, Capita, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, PIP

PIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A group of nine disabled people with the same rare

Continue readingPIP investigation: Claimant group tell MPs of ‘systemic malpractice’ by assessors

Benefit Resolutions, Citizens Advice Bureau, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, PIP, SARC, Work and Pensions Select Committee, Z2K

PIP investigation: MPs’ evidence session confirms concerns, but dodges dishonesty claims

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Nearly nine in 10 Citizens Advice offices have reported

Continue readingPIP investigation: MPs’ evidence session confirms concerns, but dodges dishonesty claims

Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Green Party, Jonathan Bartley, Labour Party, MHRN, PIP, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

March 9, 2017 JJ

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

Continue readingActivists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

Atos, Baroness Bakewell, Capita, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Green Party, Jeremy Corbyn, Penny Mourdant, PIP, Plaid Cymru, SNP, Tim Farron

PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be

Continue readingPIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’

Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP

Disabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people

Continue readingDisabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts

Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Maximus, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Maximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 One of the outsourcing giants paid to assess disabled people for

Continue readingMaximus ‘admits’ using brutal and dangerous suicide questions

Atos, Blog, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, MHRN, NHS, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Suicide Crisis, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

#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

March 7, 2017 JJ

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

Continue reading#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

Atos, Capita, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, PIP

PIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws

March 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 A disabled woman is seeking a judicial review by

Continue readingPIP investigation: Claimant seeks judicial review over assessment flaws

Access To work, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Benefits Consortium, Disability Wales, DRUK, DWP, Green Paper

No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO

March 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The UK government will not be able to achieve its

Continue readingNo chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO

Access To work, DWP, Green Paper, ILF Fund, Inclusion London, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts

Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO

March 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability

Continue readingGreen paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO

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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