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Action On Hearing (RNID), DWP, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, Pluss, REED, Remploy, RNIB, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Turning Point, Work & Health programme

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new

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#Human Catastrophe

The Nazis’ First Victims Were Disabled People ~ By Kenny Fries

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018 JJ

The Nazis’ First Victims Were Disabled People ~ By Kenny Fries in The New York Times : ‘I first

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DWP, Interwork, Maximus, Remploy

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme

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Access to Elected Office Fund, Disability Politics UK, EHRC, More United., UNCRPD

Government faces legal action over election access fund

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over

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Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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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Disability Action Alliance, DRUK, DWP, The Alliance for Inclusive Education

Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging

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#Human Catastrophe, A.S., Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, DWP, Human Rights, PIP

To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.

April 6, 2018 JJ

Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told

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Anita Bellows, Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP

YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship

April 6, 2018 JJ

Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a

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Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP

Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities

April 4, 2018 JJ

Evidence sought in case concerning DWP’s policies for communicating with people with disabilities The Public Law Project (PLP) is

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British Airways (BA), CAA, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), EHRC, Rachael Monk.

Equality watchdog calls for court action over BA’s PA ticket ‘discrimination’

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if

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Assistance Dogs International, CAA, International Guide Dog Federation, Sherlock Hounds Assistance Dogs (SHAD)

Admission by aviation regulator is latest step in assistance dogs aircraft battle

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears

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Disability Labour, Discrimination Law Association, DRUK, EHRC, Proudlock Associates

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited

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CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13

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Access To work, Action On Disability, British Deaf Association, Conservatives, Disability Justice Project, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Human Rights, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign, Tory. Tories, Tracey Lazard, UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD)

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work

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Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Proudlock Associates, Tracey Proudlock

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made

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Assessments, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Phillipa Whitford, DRUK, DWP, Frank Field, Linda Burnip

Anger over DWP refusal to repay claimants £150 million from botched reassessments

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to pay

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Conservatives, DWP, UN

Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government appears to have scrapped its cross-departmental disability strategy –

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John McDonnell, Labour Party

Spring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”

March 14, 2018 JJ

Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me

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British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dignitas, Distant Voices, NICE, Not Dead Yet, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)

Anger over Royal Society’s ‘love fest for euthanasia’ conference

February 16, 2018February 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for

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Civil Legal Advice, EHRC, Ministry of Justice, Public Law Project

Legal advice concerns after government abandons search for new contractors

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach

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Recommended Web Sites

'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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