10,600 sick & disabled people died last year within six weeks of their claim ending

@blacktriangle1 Subject: Incapacity Benefits: Deaths of recipients (July, 2012 statistical release) See: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2012/incap_decd_recips_0712.pdf 10,600 sick & disabled people died last year

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VIDEO: ‘Rethinking Disability in a Hostile Climate’ national conference of DPO’s at Inclusion London Thursday September 27th 2012

Attended by Black Triangle Please see: New network aims to unite disability movement ‘Rethinking Disability Equality Policy and Practice in

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‘About that presentation, Professor Aylward’ : Aylward’s IFDM2012 Presentation Slides and The ‘Biopsychosocial’ School of Disability Denial by British Academic Gill Thorburn

NB. This is not the follow up to which Gill Thorburn referred in her previous response to Professor Aylward, on

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Unite’s Len McCluskey: ‘Asking the poorest for further sacrifices for a crisis they did not cause is the road to political ruin and defeat at the next election’

    Labour out of touch over public sector pay freeze, say union leaders. Wording of wide-ranging motion passed by

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Liam Byrne, pointing to resentment of benefit claimants, says that social security must be ‘reinvented’ and that Labour will make cuts to welfare budget if it wins 2015 election

Shadow work and pensions secretary points to resentment of benefit claimants and says social security must be ‘reinvented’  Hélène Mulholland,

Continue readingLiam Byrne, pointing to resentment of benefit claimants, says that social security must be ‘reinvented’ and that Labour will make cuts to welfare budget if it wins 2015 election