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

August 24, 2017 JJ

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

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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

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

August 24, 2017 JJ

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

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Conservatives, DRUK, EHRC, Institute for Social and Economic Research, The Institute for Employment Studies (IES)

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

August 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The equality watchdog has called for action to improve the education

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Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

August 10, 2017 JJ

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

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Atos, Capita, DRUK, DWP, Inclusion London, Labour Party, Neil Coyle, Work and Pensions Select Committee

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

August 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on

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DRUK, DWP, Jared O'Mara, Tories, Universal Credit

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

August 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher

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Bob Williams Findlay, Breakthrough UK, Damien Green, DRUK, End The Awkward campaign., Hardest Hit, New Philanthropy Capital, Scope

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

July 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 An announcement by disability charity Scope that it will sell

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Being the Boss, DRUK, HMRC, Independant Living Alternatives, Mencap, Scope

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

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 27th 2017 Disabled people who employ personal assistants (PAs) are being

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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

Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

July 22, 2017 JJ

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

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Action On Disability, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts (HAFCAC)., Inclusion London, LIz Sayce, Spartacus Network

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

July 22, 2017 JJ

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

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Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion Scotland, Linda Burnip, ROFA, UNCRPD, United Nations

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

July 14, 2017 JJ

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

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Foodbank study suggests disability benefits should rise

July 8, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The authors of a major new study have called on

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DRUK, DWP, Motobility, Muscular Dystrophy UK, PIP

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

July 8, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 More than half of those disabled people previously eligible

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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

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

June 30, 2017 JJ

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

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Black Mental Health UK, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, MHRN, Recovery in the Bin, UKCRPD

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

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of

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Conservatives, Damien Green, DRUK, Inclusion London, PIP

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

May 4, 2017 JJ

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

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

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

May 4, 2017 JJ

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

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Conservatives, Disability Benefits Consortium, DRUK, EHRC, Inclusion London, Sir Bert Massie, UN

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

April 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government’s decision to appoint a second consecutive Tory

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

March 17, 2017 JJ

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

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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

#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

March 7, 2017 JJ

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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