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Under-fire Samaritans faces anger over advisory board crammed with Tories

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By John Pring Disability New Service February 1st 2018 A mental health charity that refused to criticise the government for ignoring links between claimants of out-of-work disability benefits and suicide attempts is facing criticism after it emerged that more than … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Charity Commission, Conservatives, DWP, Ester McVey, John McArdle, Recovery in the Bin, Rick Burgess | Tagged Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Politics | Leave a reply

Watchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people

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By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child have lost more than 13 per cent of their income through seven years of government cuts, according to a new … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Pats Petition, Rick Burgess, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, WOW Campaign | Tagged Austerity, Conservatives, cuts, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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 further co-operation with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it wrongly claimed that disabled people’s organisations (DPO) had … Continue reading →

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Posted in 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 | Tagged Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017   Activists hope a new non-partisan online campaign – based on a successful US user-led movement – could finally enable disabled people to become a political force in the UK, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alex Haagaard, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, General Election, Labour Party, Rick Burgess | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Politics, UK news, welfare state | Leave a reply

Conference hears of ‘democide’, ‘psycho-compulsion’ and suicide risk from benefit system

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October 13th 2016 By John Pring- Disability News Service   Mental health survivors and psychologists have joined forces for a conference that has highlighted the extreme damage caused by welfare reform, and has suggested how mental health professionals can help … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Psychologists Against Austerity, Rick Burgess, Suicide Crisis | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 2 Replies

DWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such a move would provide substantial savings. But the memo – drawn up before the 2015 election, and to be used … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Liz Carr, Maximus, Not Dead Yet, Rick Burgess | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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