AN unprecedented coalition of private and voluntary sector groups working with children in care has been formed to fight for

Continue readingAlliance to fight care cuts

A WOMAN found dead in a drain had been worried about attending a medical appointment to assess disability benefits, an

Continue readingWoman who drowned in drain was upset about health check

Filmed live in the dressing room at Garforth Academy during Garforth Festival, Yorkshire, Saturday 9th July 2011 by Stephen Grubb

Continue readingBILLY BRAGG – NEVER BUY THE SUN

BUNGLED rulings by the private firm deciding whether benefit claimants are fit to work are costing taxpayers s50million, we can

Continue readingEnough to make you sick: Government urged to claw back millions from contractors after they wrongly assessed thousands on disability benefits

CONCLUSIONS In this paper I have suggested that the medicalisation of disability is inappropriate because it locates the problems of

Continue readingTHE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL MODELS OF DISABILITY by MIKE OLIVER, B.A. PhD. / READER IN DISABILITY STUDIES, THAMES POLYTECHNIC; Paper presented at Joint Workshop of the Living Options Group and the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians

By Debbie Jolly from our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC condemns the outrageous comments made by Phillip Davies Conservative

Continue reading(BTC): DPAC condemns the outrageous comments made by Phillip Davies Conservative MP for Shipley

  PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW PRESENTATION SLIDESHOW: Social Model of Disability: DPAC

Andrea Hill, the chief executive who led Suffolk County Council’s ambitious ‘big society’ plans to outsource all of its services has left the council just months after programme launch … Continue reading

IF YOU’RE POOR AND SICK AND HAVE PAID YOUR NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS YOU’LL BE LEADING THE BATTLE TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT

Continue readingIF YOU’RE POOR AND SICK AND HAVE PAID YOUR NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS YOU’LL BE LEADING THE BATTLE TO REDUCE THE DEFICIT

“John McArdle of the Black Triangle Campaign told conference that there would be no economic necessity for the Government to

Continue readingSolidarity against cuts from the TUC

One of the prime minister’s disabled constituents has issued a personal plea for his help, after he was forced to

Continue readingCameron’s constituent appeals for help after ‘inhuman’ Atos treatment

GOOD to see that HM Revenue & Customs knows who the real tax-dodging villains are in Britain. Having let Vodafone

Continue readingTAX IS FOR LITTLE DISABLED PEOPLE

If you live in Merthyr Tydfil, you face the most competitive jobs market in the UK! Unemployment currently stands at

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Summary Disabled people are being hit in every aspect of life by the cuts imposed by the coalition government. But a

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Lyrics M’luds won’t you help me, with Welfare Reform?The sick need protection, their facing a storm,Worked Hard all our lifetimes,Paid

Continue readingM’Luds Won’t you help me with welfare reform? – By Sue Marsh

It’s a long read but this is what Mike, the the “owner” of the excellent web site Why Wait Forever

Continue readingThe Contract between the DWP and Atos Healthcare

Posted by Jonathan Rutherford – 15 June 2011 11:43 Labour opened the welfare system up to profiteering and unaccountable corporate power

Continue readingHow Labour got welfare wrong – and how it can put it right