ILF Fund – Black Triangle Campaign

Ian Lucas MP, ILF Fund, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Nathan Lee Davies, Patricia Gibson MP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, SNP, Tories, Tory. Tories

Minister hid judges’ criticism of McVey from MPs, hours after shock appointment

January 11, 2018 JJ

Image Courtesy of The Mirror By John Pring Disability New Service 11th January 2018 The minister for disabled people

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#Human Catastrophe, Anne McGuire, Black Triangle Campaign, Blog, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Human Rights, ILF Fund, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, PIP Deaths, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Tory. Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, ILF Fund, Independant Living Alternatives, Linda Burnip, Phillip Hammond

Chancellor ignores social care, weeks after UN’s independent living warning

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised the chancellor’s failure to provide any

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ILF Fund

Council faces legal action after slashing woman’s post-ILF care without telling her

November 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 A local authority is facing legal action after a “deeply

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Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, HOC, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, Winvisible

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

July 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given

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Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

July 8, 2017 JJ

Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused

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#CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle News, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, DWP, Equal Lives, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Penny Mordaunt, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Tories, Tory, UN, United Nations

#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people

June 1, 2017 JJ

Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017

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Black Triangle News, GMCDP Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP), ILF Fund

DPO hopes mayoral election will see Manchester lead the way on disability rights

March 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A leading disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) is hoping to

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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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Capita, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, ILF Fund, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living

‘Immoral’ Capita offered £200 bonuses to social workers to slash care packages

February 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 The outsourcing company Capita offered freelance social workers financial bonuses

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Black Triangle News, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, ILF Fund

DWP report confirms fears over impact of ILF closure

January 26, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Former recipients of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in England experienced

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Black Triangle News, Blog, Capita, Conservatives, Disability Benefits Consortium, DWP, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Kitty Jones

Initial thoughts on the work, health and disability green paper

November 6, 2016November 6, 2016 JJ

Reblogged By Kitty Jones November 6th 2016 I’ve read the government’s Work, health and disability green paper: improving lives and

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Black Triangle News, Channel 4, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, ILF Fund, Learning Disability England, NHS

Tory conference: Mowat hides from heat over social care crisis

October 6, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 The Conservative party has refused to explain why ministers appear

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DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Green Party, ILF Fund, Inclusion London, John McDonnell, Jonathan Bartley, Labour Party, Not Dead Yet, UN

Green’s new co-leader credits Independent Living Fund campaign

September 8, 2016September 10, 2016 JJ

September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The new co-leader of the Green party has told Disability News Service

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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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