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UK faces UN examination: DPOs ‘delighted’ with exposure of government’s failings

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  By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations who travelled to Geneva this week to

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UK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’

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By John Pring   Disability News Service   August 24th 2017   An international committee of disabled human rights experts

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Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

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By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many

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Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

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By John Pring Disability News Service 21st July 2017 A senior civil servant has admitted to MPs and peers that

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DRUK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 The new boss of Disability Rights UK (DR UK) has pledged to

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Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of

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Disabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit

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By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017   A new report has called for greater awareness of the

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Boycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any

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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention

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  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell

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#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

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