The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it
Continue readingLetter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version
Continue readingIsle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A senior opposition MP is to write to the minister for
Continue readingThe PIP Files: Senior MP to write to minister over ‘devastating’ revelations
By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive
Continue readingBenefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs
By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 The head of the government’s national suicide prevention strategy has refused
Continue readingGovernment’s suicide prevention boss refuses to call for action on ESA risk stats
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why
Continue readingMPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats
By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint
Continue readingBacklash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment
By John Pring Disability News Service 4th Jan 2018 More than one in eight of all decisions to reject
Continue readingMore than one in eight rejected PIP claims are overturned, DWP figures reveal
By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key
Continue readingMinister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its
Continue readingExpert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test
By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee
Continue readingFury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures
Benefit assessments – exemption to protect vulnerable patients There is a great deal of evidence about the profound distress
Continue readingPIP & ESA Benefit Exemptions from Face to Face Assessments
Image Courtesy of Winvisible By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 A grassroots group has warned MPs
Continue readingAssessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 The healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments on behalf
Continue readingBenefit assessors ‘must be held accountable’ for report failings, MPs hear
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her
Continue readingNew minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record
Reblogged From Independant Newspaper http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/universal-credit-dwp-worker-case-manager-benefits-system-government-food-banks-a7998196.html I see so much suffering on a daily basis. Case managers like me are well-trained to
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Continue readingConcerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after