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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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