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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, UKCRPD, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Watchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence

February 23, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its

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Atos, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Sister launches judicial review claim in bid for sanctions death inquest

February 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The sister of a disabled man who died after being

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Access To work, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Green Paper, Maximus, People Plus, Remploy, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

February 16, 2017 JJ

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

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Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Maximus, MHRN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

February 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th February 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over

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Spartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’

February 16, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work,

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Access To work, DWP, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Self-employment can provide choice and control for disabled people, MPs hear

February 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 Three disabled entrepreneurs have told MPs that the government should

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, CPS, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Green Party, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Jonathan Bartley, Police, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges

February 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The mother of a disabled man who starved to death

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Damien Green, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Jonathan Bartley, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Green Party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry

February 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017 The Green Party has written to work and pensions secretary Damian

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Jonathan Bartley, Lib Dems, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, ROFA, SNP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

MPs hear of activists’ anger and frustration over ministers’ response to UN report

January 26, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Disabled activists have told MPs and peers

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Atos, Blog, DWP, I Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, Maximus, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

January 26, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 About 100 activists and their allies have taken part in

Continue readingCoroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre

Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Confident, DWP, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

DWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks

November 27, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service November25th 2016 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted flooding its under-fire

Continue readingDWP admits most Disability Confident employers just skipped across from Two Ticks

Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Chancellor’s social care and WRAG omissions ‘show contempt for disabled people’

November 27, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service November 25th 2016 The chancellor has shocked disabled activists by ignoring the

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Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Debbie Jolly, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, IFS, Lord David Freud, Mary O Hara, Maximus, Mo Stewart, PIP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

November 19, 2016November 21, 2016 JJ

Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write

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Black Triangle Campaign, Damien Green, DWP, I Daniel Blake, Paul Laverty, SNP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Green refuses three times to apologise to Scotland for harm of benefit reforms

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service November 10th 2016 The work and pensions secretary Damian Green has refused three

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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Pats Petition, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign

UN’s conclusion that UK violated disability rights is ‘vindication’ for activists

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday November 10th 2016 Disabled activists who persuaded the United Nations (UN) to investigate

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Damien Green, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, I Daniel Blake, Inclusion London, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Penny Mourdant, People First, Shaping our Lives, Susan Archibald, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

DPOs criticise DWP for excluding them from green paper launch

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016 JJ

by John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Grassroots disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have criticised the government’s decision to

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, DWP, Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, UKCRPD, UKDPC, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Coroner asked to explain failure to hold inquest into benefit sanctions death

November 3, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Lawyers for the sister of a disabled man who died after

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Damien Green, Disability Confident, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Lord David Freud, Maximus, MHRN, Mo Stewart, NHS, Police, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network, United Nations, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

November 1, 2016 JJ

By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN 1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of

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Black Triangle Campaign, Damien Green, DWP, Maximus, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Professors’ silence after DWP waters down their guidance on preventing WCA suicides

October 28, 2016 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 28th 2016 A leading psychiatrist who helped the government draft guidance that

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Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, Chris Grayling, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Mo Stewart, Police, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

MSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths

October 14, 2016 JJ

13th October 2016 By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that

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