Conservatives – Black Triangle Campaign

#Human Catastrophe, Access To work, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Assessments, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Centre for Welfare Reform, Conservatives, CRPD, Department of Health (DH), Disability Discrimination, Dr Gordon Waddell, DWP, Green Paper, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Human Rights, JCP, Maximus, Mo Stewart, NHS, Peter Beresford, PIP Deaths, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Psychologists Against Austerity, Tories, UKCRPD, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

September 1, 2021 JJ

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

March 23, 2018 JJ

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, Action On Disability, British Deaf Association, Conservatives, Disability Justice Project, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Human Rights, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign, Tory. Tories, Tracey Lazard, UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD)

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

March 23, 2018 JJ

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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Assessments, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Phillipa Whitford, DRUK, DWP, Frank Field, Linda Burnip

Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay

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Conservatives, DWP, UN

Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –

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BuDS Buckingham Disability Service, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip

DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th Feburary 2018 Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler

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#Human Catastrophe, Atos, BuDS Buckingham Disability Service, Capita, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Here2Support, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews

February 9, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and

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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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#Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, John Slater, PIP, Sarah Newton MP, Tory, Tory. Tories

The PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal

February 9, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports

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#Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Assessments, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Frank Field, ICO Information Commissioners Office, John Slater

The PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors

February 8, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue

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#Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, John Slater, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton MP, Stephen Hendry, Tory, Tory. Tories

The PIP Files: DWP documents show ‘absolutely shocking’ failure on further evidence

February 8, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Outsourcing companies have been failing to request vital evidence from GPs

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Blog, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

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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Black Triangle Campaign, Charity Commission, Conservatives, DWP, Ester McVey, John McArdle, Recovery in the Bin, Rick Burgess

Under-fire Samaritans faces anger over advisory board crammed with Tories

February 1, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability New Service February 1st 2018 A mental health charity that refused to criticise the government for

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#Human Catastrophe, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip, Maximus, MHRN

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

January 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name

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Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, John McDonnell, Labour Party, OCAP

Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age

January 14, 2018January 14, 2018 JJ

Reblogged Deepest thanks to Socialist Project for working with us in OCAP to put out this pamphlet. It

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#Human Catastrophe, Anne McGuire, Black Triangle Campaign, Blog, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Human Rights, ILF Fund, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, PIP Deaths, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Tory. Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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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Avon and Somerset Police, Bijan Ebrahimi, Bristol and South West Disabled People Against Cuts (BSWDPAC), Bristol City Council, Conservatives, Disability Hate Crime Network, Katharine Quarmby

Murdered disabled refugee ‘was repeatedly failed by council and police’

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A disabled refugee who was murdered after years of racist

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Atos, Conservatives, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee

Court orders Atos to pay disabled woman £5,000 over dishonest PIP assessment

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be

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Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Frank Field, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, MHRN, Mo Stewart, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Fury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee

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#Human Catastrophe, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Anita Bellows, Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, John McArdle

Shocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide

December 1, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people

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