The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns […]
The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year […]
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its […]
Search Home Abstract PDF Current Issue Archive Online First J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206209 Research report ‘First, do no harm’: […]
Austerity and Public Law Michael Adler: Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law Editors’ note: The blog is running a […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service Friday 30th October 2015 Cameron quizzed again on death of Michael O’Sullivan and DWP’s […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service Friday 30th October 2015 Disabled people’s rights are regressing in every area of […]
Copyright John Pring Disability News Service 29th October 2015 Disabled people’s rights have gone backwards over the last five years, […]
Benefits claimants are subjected to an ‘amateurish, secret penal system which is more severe than the mainstream judicial system’, writes […]
BBC Question Time, Grimsby, Thursday 22nd October 2015 LINK TO FULL SEGMENT [Scroll to 35 minutes 35 seconds into the […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party […]
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on […]
The shocking failings of the work capability assessment system – and the healthcare assessors who are paid to police it – have been exposed by the family of one of its victims.
Disabled Michael O'Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work
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