Green Paper – Black Triangle Campaign

#Human Catastrophe, Access To work, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Assessments, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Centre for Welfare Reform, Conservatives, CRPD, Department of Health (DH), Disability Discrimination, Dr Gordon Waddell, DWP, Green Paper, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Human Rights, JCP, Maximus, Mo Stewart, NHS, Peter Beresford, PIP Deaths, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Psychologists Against Austerity, Tories, UKCRPD, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

September 1, 2021November 13, 2022 JJ

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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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, City Bridge Trust, Green Paper, Inclusion London, Tracey Lazard

Inclusion London set to test social model job support, after £775k grant

July 14, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has been given the

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Conservatives, DWP, Green Paper, Penny Mordaunt, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Ministers’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech

June 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for

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Conservatives, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Green Paper, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mordaunt

Queen’s speech: Government appears to dump Mordaunt’s WCA election promise

June 23, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability

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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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Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Gail Ward, GMCDP Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Green Paper, Inclusion London, JCP, Maximus, Spartacus Network, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living

DWP presentation on ESA plans ‘confirms worst fears’ about green paper

March 30, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017 Ministers have been accused of ignoring a public consultation

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Access To work, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Benefits Consortium, Disability Wales, DRUK, DWP, Green Paper

No chance of halving employment gap without tackling independent living, says DPO

March 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The UK government will not be able to achieve its

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Access To work, DWP, Green Paper, ILF Fund, Inclusion London, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts

Green paper was missed opportunity to dump biopsychosocial model, says DPO

March 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd March 2017 The government should replace its “deeply flawed and inaccurate” disability

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Access To work, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Green Paper, Maximus, People Plus, Remploy, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

February 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies

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'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state
Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P
AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”
Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.
Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.
ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme
Benefits Claimants Fight Back
Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot
Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle
Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog
Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.
Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.
Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011
Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future
Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for
Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism
Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.
DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation
Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.
Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.
Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.
Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!
Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report
soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …
Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment
The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout
The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”
The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”
The Void Narking off the state since 2005
Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.
Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)
Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.
Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot
Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance
YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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