Baroness Jane Campbell – Black Triangle Campaign

Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, CRPD, EHRC

Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights

February 9, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving

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Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights Commission (DRC, DRUK, EHRC, Equality Act, Human Rights, LIz Sayce, Motability, Motobility, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Sir Bert Massie, Spartacus Network

Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of

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Baroness Jane Campbell, ECHR, Liz Carr, Not Dead Yet

Activists fighting ‘assisted suicide’ laws now need ‘hard facts’ for battle ahead

July 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 Disabled activists will need to seek out more “hard facts”

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, ECHR, Euthanasia, Not Dead Yet

Activists set for ‘David and Goliath’ fight to defeat assisted suicide court bid

July 14, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 A group of disabled activists – led by a crossbench peer

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Dr Andrea Stockl, Dr Tom Porter, Equal Lives, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts, Inclusion London, Independant Living Alternatives, NCIL, Professor Tom Shakespeare, UN, UNCRPD

Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’

July 8, 2017July 8, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by

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Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC, Government Equalities Offfice, Lord Shinkwin, Sir Bert Massie

New disabled commissioner ‘astounded and offended’ by EHRC treatment

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 29th June 2017 A disabled peer who thought he had been appointed as the

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Allfie, Anne Pridmore, Baroness Jane Campbell, Jared O Mara

New disabled MP was former campaigns officer for BCODP

June 23, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 One of the two disabled Labour MPs elected to parliament

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Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC, HOL, Labour Party, Lord Shinkwin, Sir Bert Massie

Scrapping EHRC disability commissioner role ‘risks sidelining disability’

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 The “rash” decision to scrap the role of disability commissioner

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Baroness Bakewell, Baroness Jane Campbell, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mourdant, PIP

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

March 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP

Disabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts

March 9, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th March 2017 A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people

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Access To work, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Green Paper, Maximus, People Plus, Remploy, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

February 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Dept of Transport, Equality Act

Peer pressure sees minister finally announce date for taxi access laws

February 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The government has finally announced the date when it will

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Equality Act, Supreme Court, Transport for All

‘We must keep banging the drum,’ says bus campaigner after five-year fight for justice

January 19, 2017 JJ

By John Pring- Disability News Service 19/01/2017 The disabled activist who yesterday won a ground-breaking legal victory that protects

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Atos, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Maximus, Mo Stewart, Peter Beresford, Prof Danny Dorling, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, UKDPC, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Disabled researcher’s book exposes ‘corporate demolition of welfare state’

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 JJ

15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ A string of activists, academics, politicians and journalists have welcomed the publication of a new

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Baroness Jane Campbell

Government must rip up response to Equality Act report, say disabled peers

September 8, 2016September 10, 2016 JJ

September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service Disabled peers have demanded that the government rips up its “frustrating”, “clichéd”

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Baroness Jane Campbell, DRUK, EHRC

EHRC earns cautious approval for response to Equality Act report

July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 JJ

The equality watchdog has earned cautious approval for its response to recommendations made by a House of Lords committee that

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Allfie, Baroness Jane Campbell, Disability Discrimination, EHRC, Human Rights

EU laws ‘have played crucial role’ in fight for disability rights

June 16, 2016 JJ

Disabled people have been urged to recognise the importance of the European Union (EU) in maintaining and building on their

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Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Disability Discrimination, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Liz Carr, Not Dead Yet

Activists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’

May 26, 2016 JJ

Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests

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'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state

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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

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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

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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.

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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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