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Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Discrimination Law Association, DRUK, EHRC, Proudlock Associates | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, UK news | Leave a reply

Disabled people ‘will go into government alongside Labour’, says McDonnell

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Disabled people and their organisations will “determine” and “implement” the disability policies of the next Labour government, the shadow chancellor has promised a national conference. John McDonnell told the National … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Bob Williams Findlay, Debbie Jolly, Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Eleanor Firman., Ellen Clifford, Robert Dellar, Sophie Partridge, StopChanges2AtW campaign | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

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  By John Pring Disability News Service  2nd November 2017   Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told a Commons inquiry that disability benefit assessment reports completed on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions are filled … Continue reading →

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Posted in Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, PIP, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she has been forced to resort to crowdfunding to obtain a wheelchair that is suitable for her needs, because of “chronic” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, welfare state | Leave a reply

Labour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head in the sand” over the damage caused by years of cuts that have been “targeted” on disabled people. Marsha de … Continue reading →

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Posted in Action for Blind People, Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Thomas Pocklington Trust | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Shock and outrage over Field’s minimum wage comments

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Disabled party activists have expressed shock and outrage after the Labour chair of the Commons work and pensions committee suggested that employers should be allowed to pay some disabled people less … Continue reading →

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Posted in Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, Frank Field, Jared O'Mara, Kate Green, Labour Party, Learning Disability England, Marsha de Cordova | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Benefit assessment nurses must be held to account, says Abrahams

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has called for nurses and other healthcare professionals who write misleading benefit assessment reports to be “held to account”. Debbie Abrahams said there had been … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Capita, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, Labour Party, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Members accuse party of years of ‘blatant discrimination’

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour is facing concerted pressure to put an end to years of “blatant discrimination” against its own disabled party members, while also facing complaints about “inexcusable” access failings at this week’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anne Pridmore, Disability Labour, Labour Party, Louise Reecejones, Party Participation and Disabled People (PPDP) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Labour, Politics, 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

Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and identifying measures to help you and other claimants. It would be good to have some feedback on the Health and … Continue reading →

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Posted in BMA, Conservative Disability Group, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, GMC, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, Tories, UC, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Party ‘must do more on rights and inclusion’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 of its content was ignored by the conference. Among its pledges, Corbyn’s manifesto commits to the full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, ENIL, Human Rights, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Not Dead Yet, UKCRPD | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

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