The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
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Call For Evidence- Universal Credit Overpayments
Black Triangle Campaign and our sister organisation DPAC are calling for evidence regarding retrospective Overpayments. Have you received
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DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had
DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent
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DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing
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Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it
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Mother of ESA suicide woman pledges to continue fight for justice
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly
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DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart
Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’
By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new
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Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme
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Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version
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Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging
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To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
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YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship
Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a
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Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities
Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities The Public Law Project (PLP) is
Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work
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Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay
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Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –
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Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the
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