Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct5th 2017 Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer
Continue readingTory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’
By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell
Continue readingScope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 A disabled women says she was left to sit
Continue readingWoman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
#CripTheVoteUK 26/5/17: Assistant Coroner Jo Wharton ruled disabled Jodey took her own life as a direct result of heartless DWP
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have
Continue readingDWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The sister of a disabled woman who she believes was driven
Continue readingPIP suicide woman’s sister blames ‘barbaric’ system for her death
By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has
Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
Continue readingIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in
Continue readingLower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people
By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard
Continue readingDWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread
Continue readingElection forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any
Continue readingBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme
By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to
Continue readingGovernment admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries
By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of
From Monday (3rd April), new recipients of employment and support allowance deemed healthy enough to carry out ‘work related activities’
Continue readingPotential Legal Challenge to £30 p.w. ESA Cut – defendants needed