Government side-stepping UN disability rights examination shows contempt for disabled people
Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’ By John Pring on 17th August 2023Category: Human Rights Listen
Government side-stepping UN examination ‘shows contempt for disabled people’ By John Pring on 17th August 2023Category: Human Rights Listen
By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing
Continue readingEHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’
Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people
By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show
Continue readingBlame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry
isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial
Continue readingDWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
By John Pring Disability News Service on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning Listen A press watchdog has received hundreds
Continue readingWatchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden
’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the
Continue readingFit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins
Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
Continue readingDWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
Continue readingWhy are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
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Linda Howard Money and Consumer Writer Scottish Daily Record 15:05, 9 NOV 2022 The UK Government has dismissed a new online
Thursday 10th November 2022 Dearest Friends, Members, Supporters of Black Triangle Campaign and all people of good will throughout the
By John Pring on 20th October 2022Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen T The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of
Continue readingCoffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides