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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 help highlight the government’s continuing human rights violations have praised a UN committee of disabled experts for publicly exposing the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, ODI, Rhian Davies, Sally Witcher, Tories, Tracey Lazard, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations | 2 Replies

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 have delivered a series of withering attacks on the UK government over its failure to implement the UN disability convention. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, CRPD, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, UN, UNCRPD, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Tackle education, career stereotypes and flexible working to close pay gap, says EHRC

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By John Pring  Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The equality watchdog has called for action to improve the education of disabled pupils, tackle career stereotypes and improve the availability of flexible working, in order to close the gap in … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, DRUK, EHRC, Institute for Social and Economic Research, The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news | Leave a reply

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 disabled students from entering higher education, without knowing how much money it would save or how many young disabled people … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Students, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

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By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who assess disabled people for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP). Disability … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Capita, DRUK, DWP, Inclusion London, Labour Party, Neil Coyle, Work and Pensions Select Committee | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 6 Replies

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017   Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher education because of the introduction of the government’s new universal credit, according to MPs and peers who have written to … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, DWP, Jared O'Mara, Tories, Universal Credit | Tagged Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Universal Credit, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Scope’s ‘radical’ plans ‘will see it compete with DPOs’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell all its residential homes and special schools, and re-position itself as a “social change organisation”, is an attempt to invade … Continue reading →

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Posted in Bob Williams Findlay, Breakthrough UK, Damien Green, DRUK, End The Awkward campaign., Hardest Hit, New Philanthropy Capital, Scope | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

PA employers are facing probes into ‘sleep-in’ minimum wage back-pay

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  By John  Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017   Disabled people who employ personal assistants (PAs) are being investigated by the government for failing to pay their PAs the minimum wage during overnight “sleep-in” shifts. HM Revenue and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Being the Boss, DRUK, HMRC, Independant Living Alternatives, Mencap, Scope | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, Politics, Welfare | Leave a reply

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 the government’s industrial strategy will not be “fit for purpose” unless it corrects its failure to consider disability and other … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alex Williams, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Aspire, Disability Confident, Dr Lisa Cameron SNP MP, DRUK, EHRC, Green Paper, Jared O'Mara, Philip Connolly, Two Ticks | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

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 do more to involve young disabled people in the organisation’s work, and improve its relationships with other disabled people’s organisations … Continue reading →

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Posted in Action On Disability, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts (HAFCAC)., Inclusion London, LIz Sayce, Spartacus Network | Tagged Austerity, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, Welfare | Leave a reply

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 the UN disability convention, according to disabled people’s grassroots groups and organisations that are working together to expose its failings. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion Scotland, Linda Burnip, ROFA, UNCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Foodbank study suggests disability benefits should rise

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The authors of a major new study have called on the government to launch an inquiry into whether disability benefit payments should be increased, after finding more than half of … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Food banks, John Pring, Politics, Society, Trussell Trust, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights

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    By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 More than half of those disabled people previously eligible for the Motability vehicle scheme have lost that eligibility after being reassessed for the government’s new disability benefit, according to … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, DWP, Motobility, Muscular Dystrophy UK, PIP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 3 Replies

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 rights enjoyed by disabled people through the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU), as the country moves towards Brexit. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Action On Disability, Breakthrough UK, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, Disability Law Hub, Disability Wales, DRUK, Inclusion Scotland, Independant lives, Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living, LIz Sayce, Real, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Spinal Injuries Association, Tories, UN, UNCRPD, York Independant Living Network | Tagged Austerity, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017   Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of “hypocrisy” after it promised to end the “burning injustices” facing mental health service-users. Both groups pointed out that Conservative social … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Mental Health UK, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, MHRN, Recovery in the Bin, UKCRPD | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, IPS, John Pring, Labour, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

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By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017   Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments, but their inquiry has had to be abandoned because of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, DRUK, Inclusion London, PIP | Tagged Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, PIP, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

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 further co-operation with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it wrongly claimed that disabled people’s organisations (DPO) had … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Breakthrough UK, Damien Green, DRUK, DWP, Evenbreak, Gail Ward, Green Paper, Rick Burgess, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Concern as minister appoints Tory peer as equality watchdog’s disability lead

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  By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017   The government’s decision to appoint a second consecutive Tory peer to lead on the equality watchdog’s work on disabled people’s rights could put its status as a leading international … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Disability Benefits Consortium, DRUK, EHRC, Inclusion London, Sir Bert Massie, UN | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

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 a UN committee the different ways in which the UK government has been breaching the UN Convention on the Rights … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Black Mental Health UK, Black Triangle Campaign, British Deaf Association, Disability Action NI, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Equal Lives, European Disability Forum, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, International Disability Alliance, LIz Sayce, People First Scotland, ROFA, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Human rights, John Pring, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 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

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