Assessments – Black Triangle Campaign

#Human Catastrophe, Access To work, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Assessments, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Centre for Welfare Reform, Conservatives, CRPD, Department of Health (DH), Disability Discrimination, Dr Gordon Waddell, DWP, Green Paper, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Human Rights, JCP, Maximus, Mo Stewart, NHS, Peter Beresford, PIP Deaths, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Psychologists Against Austerity, Tories, UKCRPD, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

September 1, 2021November 13, 2022 JJ

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version

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#Human Catastrophe, A.S., Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, DWP, Human Rights, PIP

To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.

April 6, 2018 JJ

Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told

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Anita Bellows, Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP

YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship

April 6, 2018 JJ

Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a

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Assessments, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Phillipa Whitford, DRUK, DWP, Frank Field, Linda Burnip

Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay

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Anita Bellows, Assessments, Atos, Capita, John Slater, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, SNP, Stephen Hendry, Stephen Lloyd, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

The PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for

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#Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Assessments, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Frank Field, ICO Information Commissioners Office, John Slater

The PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors

February 8, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue

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#Human Catastrophe, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Anita Bellows, Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, John McArdle

Shocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide

December 1, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people

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Assessments, Atos, Capita, DWP, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Winvisible, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

November 24, 2017 JJ

Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs

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Assessments, Atos, CAB, Capita, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Involve North West, Maximus, PIP, Southampton Advice and Representation Centre, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Benefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf

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Assessments, Citizens Advice Bureau, DWP, Ernest Ryder, PIP, Sir Henry Brooke

A Senior Judge Has Suggested Charging The Government For Every “No-Brainer” Benefits Case It Loses In Court

November 10, 2017 JJ

By Emily Dugan https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/most-dwp-benefits-cases-which-reach-court-are-based-on-bad?utm_term=.vdNwjXxjE6&ref=mobile_share#.rlzN1aX1Ar Britain’s most senior tribunal judge says most of the benefits cases that reach court are based

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'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state
Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P
AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”
Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.
Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.
ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme
Benefits Claimants Fight Back
Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot
Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle
Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog
Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.
Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.
Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011
Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future
Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for
Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism
Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.
DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation
Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.
Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.
Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.
Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!
Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report
soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …
Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment
The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout
The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”
The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”
The Void Narking off the state since 2005
Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.
Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)
Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.
Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot
Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance
YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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