DISREGARDING DIAGNOSIS KILLS
11th September 2016 a feature article by – Mo Stewart As a concept, it’s extraordinary. As a political policy, it’s a killer.
11th September 2016 a feature article by – Mo Stewart As a concept, it’s extraordinary. As a political policy, it’s a killer.
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider
Continue readingBenefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in
Continue readingCrisis and resistance in mental health services in England
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
August 25th 2016 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths
Continue readingDWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews
11th August 2016 A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap
Continue readingCharity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap
11th August 2016 John Pring DWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse The Department
Continue readingDWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse
4th August 2016 John Pring A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to
Continue readingDocuments show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy
A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help
Continue readingMaximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts
John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his
Thursday 21st July 2016 1400 hrs BST Dr Tony Cox was today sentenced to 150 hours community service at 0945
Continue readingScottish Campaigner Dr Tony Cox Found Guilty
One of the two prospective candidates to challenge UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused over his record
Continue readingOwen Smith challenged over disability record
The right of the PLP are faced with an impossible conundrum. On the one hand, many of them believe that
The minister for disabled people has admitted to complete ignorance about the model that lies at the heart of his
Continue readingTomlinson admits to ignorance about biopsychosocial model
A government contractor has told a traumatised abuse survivor he must be reassessed for employment and support allowance (ESA), just
Continue readingDWP piles WCA demand onto ‘humiliated’ abuse survivor
While the country is entrenched in the mire of the EU referendum fallout, the Tories have just been slammed
Official figures suggest that a new appeal stage introduced for unsuccessful claimants has been little more than a delaying tactic
Continue readingFirst figures on ESA mandatory reconsideration ‘show it is just a delaying tactic’
Ministers are delaying the release of nine secret reviews into the deaths of benefit claimants, even though civil servants apparently
Continue readingMinisters ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving
Continue readingReport finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 26th May 2016 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for Iain Duncan Smith to
Continue readingShadow chancellor backs calls to prosecute Iain Duncan Smith over WCA deaths