‘Fit for Work’ Part Two – BBC R4 – The suicide of Mr Kevin Dooley – By Jolyon Jenkins
Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people
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Blame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry
By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show
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DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death
isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial
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Watchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
By John Pring Disability News Service on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning Listen A press watchdog has received hundreds
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Letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Over 100 Mental Health Professionals Re: Scapegoating of Disabled People
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden
Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins
’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the
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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda
Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
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NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13
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Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work
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Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay
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Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –
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DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th Feburary 2018 Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler
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‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and
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Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving
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