UK GPs Conference to vote on ending the Work Capability Assessment “with immediate effect”
UPDATE: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY! Tomorrow is a very big day for us in the grassroots disability rights movement. Our General
Month: May 2012
IPC head names as ‘top sponsor’ Atos Healthcare, responsible for controversial ‘work capability’ tests for disabled people … Continue reading
Maggie West: I Demand Justice
By Maggie West There are no words that I have not already written about this subject, often in enormous distress.
IDS refuses to apologise after disability row
Friday, 18 May 2012 8:24 AM By Ian Dunt Iain Duncan Smith has refused to apologise after suggesting unemployed workers
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‘Disability and the return of blame culture’ ~ New Statesman
From newspaper columnists, to politicians, to nightclub owners, myths and distortions are spreading.. ‘Savvy activists’? – Qui? Nous, Christina? Mon
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Disability hate crime in Scotland up more than 40% year-on-year
Hate crime cases rose by 14% over the last 12 months in Scotland, with just over 6,000 charges being reported.
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Owen Jones: Hatred of those on benefits is dangerously out of control
Taking away support can only be achieved by demonising recipients as scroungers in mansions By OWEN JONES What does it
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Has the ‘Labour’ Party’s approach to sick and disabled people shifted?
Can a Leopard change its spots? – BLACK TRIANGLE Liam Byrne’s Beveridge2 speech yesterday has attracted a lot of attention. Here, three writers
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Social Work and Mental Health by Jeremy Weinstein ~ a paper dealing with the oppression of people with mental illnesses under neoliberalism
Jeremy Weinstein is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, qualifying in 1999. Jeremy is an academic former social worker who now works in
The human cost of disability cuts ~ Letters to The Guardian
Wednesday 16 May 2012 20.59 BST We are concerned about the current and projected impacts on disabled people of the
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REPORT: ‘GPs at the Deep End’ – GP experience of the impact of austerity on patients and general practices in very deprived areas
REPORT: ‘GPs at the Deep End’ – GP experience of the impact of austerity on patients and general practices in
David Cameron considers ordering extra £25bn of welfare cuts ‘the Daily Telegraph can disclose’
David Cameron is considering ordering billions of pounds in extra welfare cuts proposed in a confidential Downing Street policy paper,
‘Fury’ as blind people hit by benefit reform – The Independent
Sasha Callaghan wrote on DPAC’s Wall: “Seriously, what did these clusterfucksters think the draft descriptors for PIP meant when they voted
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Number of Disabled People Losing Benefits May Top One Million
Posted on May 15, 2012 by johnny void Paralympian medal winners and war veterans may find themselves stripped of benefits and abandoned to
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Iain Duncan Smith’s DLA claims – Disabled People’s Organisations, members, family, friends, carers and supporters’ Letter to the Daily Telegraph
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Do Iain Duncan Smith’s DLA claims ring true?
14 May, 2012 – 17:45 — Owen Spottiswoode The Work and Pensions Secretary made his case for reforming the Disability Living
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Welfare Reform Committee 1st Report, 2012 (Session 4) Stage 1 Report on the Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Bill Published by the Scottish Parliament on 16 May 2012
Black Triangle gave extensive evidence to the committee and we continue to work with the committee to do whatever we
Bill seeking to lessen impact of UK welfare reform in Scotland moves forward
16/05/2012 A Bill proposed by the Scottish Government to seek, as far as is possible, to limit the likely widespread
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IDS’s ‘Reforms’ ~ THE TRUTH: Impact assessment on the abolition of working age disability living allowance (DLA)
Impact assessing the abolition of working age DLA Disability Rights UK and this analysis Disability Rights UK is a new