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Second year of huge rises in disability hate crime, but causes still unclear

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  By John Pring Disability News Service  October 19th 2017   The number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police rose by more than 50 per cent last year, according to new figures released by the Home Office. The … Continue reading →

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Posted in CPS, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate Crime Network | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Human rights, John Pring, Society, UK news | 1 Reply

Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) throughout its seven years, who made a “fundamental” contribution to disabled people’s liberation, and who … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, Blog, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Disability Discrimination, Disability Rights Commission (DRC, DRUK, EHRC, Equality Act, Human Rights, LIz Sayce, Motability, Motobility, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Sir Bert Massie, Spartacus Network | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

New disabled MPs back fresh call to reopen access fund

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Image Courtesy of Mirror   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The two newest disabled MPs in the House of Commons have backed a call for the government to reopen a fund that helped politicians meet the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Caroline Lucas, Disability Discrimination, Disability Politics UK, Green Party, Marsh de Cordova, Stephen Llyod, UN, UNCRPD | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

Police watchdog criticised over investigation into murder of disabled refugee

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Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service  6th July 2017   A watchdog has been criticised for failing to investigate whether disability hate crime played a part in the harassment and abuse suffered by a disabled refugee, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Bijan Ebrahimi, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, Disability Hate Crime Network, IPPC, Katharine Quarmby | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Scottish politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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Picture Courtesy of Guardian   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Court awards disabled woman ‘aggravated’ damages for ombudsman discrimination

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  By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A county court has delivered a devastating judgment against the Local Government Ombudsman, after it discriminated against a disabled woman by failing to provide the reasonable adjustments she needed to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Department for Communities and Local Government, Disability Discrimination, Equality Act, ICO Information Commissioners Office, Jannine Blamires, Yorkshire County Council | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Politics | Leave a reply

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

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Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an Oxfordshire market. ‘UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories’ By Linda Burnip DPAC in New Internationalist Thursday 1st … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ian Duncan Smith, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, PIP, PIP Deaths, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign, WOW Petition | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

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

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BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017 Appalled disabled activists have warned the British Medical Association (BMA) that it will be “complicit” in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, British Medical Association, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GMC, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Tory. Tories, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, cuts, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

#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

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“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)

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Access To work, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, PIP Deaths, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Shaping our Lives, SNP, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UC, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | Leave a reply

Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health and safety laws after being forced to take part in government workfare programmes, according to new research published this week. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Boycott Workfare, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, Disability Hate Crime Network, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Jon Burnett, Mary O Hara, Professor David Whyte, Vickie Cooper OU Criminology | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, HSE, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Disabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice

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By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 A disabled mother-of-five has described how having to fight the courts repeatedly for nearly two decades for the right to keep her children has led her to set up a pressure … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Burt, CAFCASS, Disability Discrimination, DPPU | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

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By John  Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’ failure to make the reasonable adjustments that would make the court process accessible to them, according to a disabled human … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equal Treatment Bench Book, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Reasonable Adjustments, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

#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

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Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, MHRN, NHS, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Suicide Crisis, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Police force criticised after refusing to treat ‘lynch mob’ murder as hate crime

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By John Pring Disability News service 23rd Febraury 2017   A chief constable has insisted that his police force was right not to treat the brutal murder of a man with learning difficulties who was hung from a tree and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, Disability Hate Crime Network, Inclusion London | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Human rights, Katherine Quarmby, UK news | Leave a reply

‘Inspired by ‘I, Daniel Blake’ disabled protesters make ‘Declaration of Humanity’ in Seoul

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By Ahn Young-choon, Staff reporter     Disabled people in wheelchairs spraypaint their names as a declaration of their humanity, inspired by the movie “I, Daniel Blake”, while demanding a ruling to end to the role of the Social Security Committee, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, Nodeul Night School, Paul Laverty, Solidarity against Disability Discrimination | Tagged Black Triangle, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Human rights, Seoul, South Korea | Leave a reply

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why it failed to release the results of a pilot project that was supposed to correct a fatal flaw in … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Maximus, MHRN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants

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By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017 Fresh evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to allow benefit claimants to communicate via email, despite its claims that it allows disabled people with “valid reasons” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Civil Legal Advice, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Equality Act | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Welfare | Leave a reply

Chancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’

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  By John Pring  Disability News service November 25th 2016   The chancellor has shocked disabled activists by ignoring the social care funding crisis in his autumn statement, and refusing to scrap a planned cut to employment and support allowance … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

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Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General   As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write to you to denounce attempts to delegitimise the UN interim report by UN officials carried out under Article 6 of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Debbie Jolly, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, IFS, Lord David Freud, Mary O Hara, Maximus, Mo Stewart, PIP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Catalina Devandas Aguila, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, foodbanks, Grant Shapps, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Poverty, Raquel Rolnik, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

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By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN  1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of the Scottish Unemployed Workers’ Network says people should beware the Tory rhetoric around the ‘work cure’ THE new secretary of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Damien Green, Disability Confident, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Lord David Freud, Maximus, MHRN, Mo Stewart, NHS, Police, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network, United Nations, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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