Austerity – Black Triangle Campaign

MInd, National Survivor User Network, Rethink

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is

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Daniel Donaldson, Legal Spark

Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against

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DWP, Grahame Morris MP, John Slater, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had

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Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Inclusion London, Linda Burnip, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, Tracey Lazard

Social care ‘citizens’ assembly’ set up by MPs omits DPOs from panel of experts

April 28, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 A consultation event set up by MPs to produce recommendations from

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Disability Benefits Consortium, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, MInd, Pluss, Remploy, RNIB, ROFA, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Sisters of Frida, Tory. Tories, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme

DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent

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#Human Catastrophe, Dr Paul Litchfield, DWP, Micheal O'Sullivan, Prof Malcolm Harrington, Stephen Carre, WCA Deaths

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

April 26, 2018April 28, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing

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#Human Catastrophe, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Inclusion London, MHRN, Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, Recovery in the Bin, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), UC, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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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Black Triangle Campaign, Class War Scotland, DPAC Glasgow, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, Marion Nisbet, SNP

Mother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability

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Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart

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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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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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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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Action On Disability, Disability Justice Project, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign

Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the

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DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ester McVey, Linda Burnip, Motability, PIP, WOW Campaign

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability

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Atos, Capita, DWP, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Mark Lucas, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)., PIP, The Professional Standards Authority (PSA)

Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to

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