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EHRC report for UN on government’s rights violations ‘not fit for purpose’

August 18, 2023 John McArdle

By John Pring on 17th August 2023 Category: Human Rights Listen The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing

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‘Fit for Work’ Part Two – BBC R4 – The suicide of Mr Kevin Dooley – By Jolyon Jenkins

June 15, 2023 John McArdle

Released On: 09 Jun 2023 Available for over a year For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people

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Blame, exclusion and harm – the effects of labels in welfare & psychiatry

June 15, 2023June 15, 2023 John McArdle

By Harvey Duke Published 15th June 2023 I’d like us to consider a thought experiment, which may help to show

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DWP criticised in parliament for ‘hiding’ information on starvation death

June 12, 2023 John McArdle

isten The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised in parliament for its “serious” failure to provide crucial

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Letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Over 100 Mental Health Professionals Re: Scapegoating of Disabled People

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 John McArdle

The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden

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Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins

June 3, 2023June 3, 2023 John McArdle

’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the

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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 John McArdle

Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex

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DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths

June 2, 2023 John McArdle

DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st

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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 John McArdle

Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for

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Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 John McArdle

BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment

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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest

June 2, 2023 John McArdle

Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The

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The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023

May 30, 2023 John McArdle

‘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

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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Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’

April 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it

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Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version

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The PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for

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Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive

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Government’s suicide prevention boss refuses to call for action on ESA risk stats

February 9, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The head of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy has refused

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MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats

January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why

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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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