In the wake of the UK LMCs Conference vote by Britain’s GPs to end the DWP/AtoS Work Capability Assessment “with immediate effect” The Black Triangle Campaign called for the immediate resignation of both Simon Gillespie, CEO of The MS Society and Sir Michael Marmot, President of the BMA from the Government’s advisory committee on the Work […]
2 April 2012 Following his resignation from the Government’s review panel for the Work Capability Assessment, our Chief Executive Paul Farmer blogs about the damage the process is doing to the lives of people with mental health problems. At Mind, we follow a simple model of how we work – we listen to what people […]
Chris Grayling – spinning and fibbing like demented Clegg 2.0 Chief executive Paul Farmer denies claim by employment minister Chris Grayling that he left the Work Capability Assessment scrutiny panel because of ‘potential legal action’ By Kat Hopps, Third Sector Online, 4 April 2012 […]
Paul Farmer says he has resigned to publicise his anger at an 'inhumane system' that is telling severely ill and disabled they are fit to work
PIP Back Payments Commons Debate Tuesday 30th January 2018 Previous PIP Back Payments 30 January 2018 1.52 pm Marsha De Cordova (Battersea) (Lab) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make a statement on the process and timetable for the personal independence payment back payments. The Minister for Disabled […]
By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 Disabled activists have called on the charity Mind to explain how seconding a senior member of staff to work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last year has affected mental health service-users. In an open letter to the charity’s chief executive, Paul […]
Legal action against U.K. Government launched by sister of ex-soldier David Clapson who died as a direct result of DWP sanctions regime Monday 7th November 2016 Gill Thompson’s legal case for her brother David, who was diabetic and died in 2013 after his Jobseekers Allowance was sanctioned, has just been launched. Gill’s legal team […]
October13th 2016. By John Pring – Disability News Service Disabled activists have called for a boycott of the mental health charity Mind, and called on its chief executive to quit, after one of its managers agreed to spend a year working with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They say the move […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service Friday 30th October 2015 Disabled people’s rights are regressing in every area of their lives, while the government has “abandoned” its target of ensuring full equality, according to new research by a leading disabled people’s organisation. The information paper, published by Inclusion London – which supports 78 user-led […]
22 May 2013 Paul Jenkins Three judges today confirmed what campaigners have been shouting from the rooftops for years – the benefits test used to decide whether people are fit for work, actively discriminates against people with mental illness. This is a huge victory for everyone who has been subjected to the cruel […]
After the debate John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP tweeted: ‘Coalition minister backs Atos and rejects calls from MPs to scrap WCA system.When Parliament fails, no other alternative but direct action’ Black Triangle Campaign agrees wholeheartedly. The ConDems must NOT be permitted to continue getting away with the administrative MURDER of sick and/or disabled people! This […]
Government wants to increase penalties for sick and disabled claimants who fail to adhere to back-to-work agreements
Work capability assessments, which identify those fit for work, are singled out for criticism by health professionals, campaigners and claimants
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE BLACK TRIANGLE ANTI-DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF DISABILITY RIGHTS WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY 2012 17.00 HRS For immediate release and dissemination to all allied campaigns, organisations, press and media organisations, trade unions and individual members of the UK Disability Rights Movement Today at Liverpool the voice of general practice in Britain, the United […]
… You’re having a laugh Posted in National | 19 May 2012 – 3:30pm – IMPORTANT NOTE: LINKS TO ARTICLES ARE BLACK TRIANGLE’S AND NOT THE DANCING GIRAFFE’S! Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the MS Society has been announced as a new member of the independent scrutiny group working on improvements to the Work […]
Wednesday 16 May 2012 20.59 BST We are concerned about the current and projected impacts on disabled people of the changes to employment and support allowance; the ongoing issues with the work capability assessment; the reduction in local authority social care expenditure; the replacement of disability living allowance by personal independence payment; the closure of the independent living fund […]
Fears those too ill to work will be unable to meet basic living costs as government limits contributory allowance to 365 days
PUBLISHED in LETTERS 19/04/2012 11:18 PM End inhumane WCA assessments We, the undersigned, fully support the decision made by Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, to resign from the government’s Advisory Panel on the Work Capability Assessment, an “assessment” which he rightly brands “inhumane”. At the recent Scottish Local Medical Committees Conference – the voice […]
Better late than never! By Kat Hopps, Third Sector Online, 2 April 2012 Mind chief executive Paul Farmer says ministers did not address concerns over damage to the charity’s clients Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, has resigned as the charity representative on the government review panel for the Work Capability Assessment. Farmer […]
Today sees the release of this report which devastatingly exposes the Government’s extreme mendacity in pretending to have properly consulted the disabled people of theUK- when it has in fact grossly misrepresented both our views and claimed our support for unacceptable changes to DLA in the Welfare Reform Bill back before the Lords this week. […]
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