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DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases

February 1, 2018 JJ

John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no

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No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?

January 13, 2018 JJ

Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t

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Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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Template: ‘Arrears of Employment & Support Allowance which may be owed to me through your official error’

November 19, 2017 JJ

Following news that DWP have made error when transferring Claimants to ESA. Below is a template which

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10 Downing Street wins access award… despite steps to iconic front door

November 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 A disabled access expert has questioned why 10 Downing Street

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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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DPOs call on transport secretary to restore Access for All funding

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners and their allies have called on the transport secretary

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My Speech on the UNCRPD Judgement at the SNP Conference-Fiona Robertson

October 11, 2017 JJ

https://youtu.be/p06D073xAME “Conference, delegates, friends. I know I speak for the whole Disabled Members Group, and for disabled people up and

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Tory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct5th 2017 Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer

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Fears have been expressed that the growing number of people being reported missing across Tayside could be linked to money worries.

September 7, 2017 JJ

Reblogged Article by Adam Hill Sept 7th 2017 New figures released by Police Scotland show a huge rise in people

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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

June 2, 2017 JJ

Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

June 1, 2017 JJ

The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people

June 1, 2017 JJ

Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a

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#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future

June 1, 2017 JJ

BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday

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Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders

May 25, 2017May 29, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into

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Vote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people

May 20, 2017May 21, 2017 JJ

Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based

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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

April 21, 2017 JJ

By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,

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There are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

April 21, 2017 JJ

Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number

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#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations

March 7, 2017 JJ

Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had

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Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

January 26, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in

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DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases

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No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?

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10 Downing Street wins access award… despite steps to iconic front door

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DPOs call on transport secretary to restore Access for All funding

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