By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party committee of MPs that were aimed at improving the safety and transparency of its benefits sanctions regime. In its response … Continue reading →
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims.
Continue reading →Disabled Michael O’Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work
Continue reading →Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if a former surgeon whose flawed assessment of a disabled man helped trigger his suicide is still testing people with mental … Continue reading →
Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’ By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years, disabled campaigners have … Continue reading →
The doctors’ union has finally agreed to tell every GP in the country about two regulations that campaigners believe could protect disabled people facing the controversial “fitness for work” test
Continue reading →Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg: They shall be remembered forevermore. Avenge the dead. Resuscitate the living. We must fight on for freedom from Westminster’s murderous … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
A SCOTTISH campaigner will this morning tell the Human Rights Council of the UN that the UK Government is in breach of its human rights obligations to disabled people. In Geneva today, Dr Pauline Nolan, Policy Officer for Inclusion … Continue reading →
BY ANDREW GRICE The Independent The unemployed would be guaranteed the offer of a job but could lose their benefits for six months if they turned it down, under a tough new policy on welfare planned by Labour. Ed Miliband is preparing … Continue reading →
UK Uncut podcast #1 – Interview with disability activist Anne Novis MBE by UKUncut This is an article Anne wrote last year, all of which Black Triangle wholeheatedly endorses. Anne Novis MBE: ‘A Push too far’ First published on January 15, … Continue reading →
Further details about Personal Independence Payment (PIP) announced yesterday reveal who some of the biggest losers under the replacement for disability living allowance (DLA) will be. Claimants who can walk more than 50 metres, even if they … Continue reading →
5.30pm sharp till 7pm Mon 27th February Meet at Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place EH7 5HA to plan anti workfare demo in Edinburgh on Sat 3rd March.All interested very welcome. Called by Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty (ECAP) … Continue reading →
The government’s welfare reforms are having a devastating impact on thousands of sick and disabled Scots – according to evidence published today (Thursday 23rd Feb) by Citizens Advice Scotland. The report, ‘From Pillar to Post’, describes the experience of the 170,000 … Continue reading →
We are all drowning in a sea of Government lies and propaganda! Thank God for organisations like Full Fact and Corporate Watch who report hard facts and expose falsehoods that are not based on empirical research and analysis! The Cameron/DWP … Continue reading →
‘Benefits man found hanged, inquest heard’ Thursday 23rd February 2012 A MAN who had “significant worries” was found hanging in his home by a neighbour, a Burnley inquest heard. Craig Monk, 43, of Curlew Gardens, Burnley, was found dead on … Continue reading →
By Magnus Gardham MORE than 100,000 sick and disabled Scots face hardship because of the Con-Dems’ tough welfare cuts, a damning report reveals today. They will lose £390million over the next three years after being moved off Incapacity Benefit, say … Continue reading →
A report published today by the Work and Pensions Select Committee concludes that the Government should learn the lessons of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), originally introduced in 2008. The Government should not … Continue reading →
Proposed reforms incentivise family breakdown, according to the OCCE The Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England has issued an assessment of the impact of the Welfare Reform Bill which highlights the risks to children’s rights. The purpose of the assessment is … Continue reading →
