Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its
Continue readingLeonard Cheshire set to scrap disabled-only team over budget black hole
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty
Continue readingHundreds of thousands of disabled people in ‘destitution’, research suggests
Government claims that welfare reforms are necessary, disregards the inevitable deaths they created, writes researcher Mo Stewart By: Mo Stewart
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. … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system
Black Triangle’s List of Deaths Linked to Benefit Loss arising from Welfare Reforms Wednesday 20th October 2015 Please note: Although
Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’ By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people
Continue readingQueen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come
23 April 2015 By John Pring, Disability News Service The Scottish National Party (SNP) has pledged to block plans to
Continue readingELECTION 2015: SNP pledges to block coalition’s PIP and DLA disability spending cuts
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go
Continue readingGo ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant
Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund … Continue readingSecond court case to challenge ILF closure in England and Wales launched
All I ask of you is for your help. Help us save the independent living fund from closing on 30th June 2015. … Continue readingJoin the campaign to save the Independent Living Fund #SaveILF
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BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: ‘The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy
Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival … Continue readingLorraine from Glasgow had cancer but was forced to starve and rely on the foodbank by DWP-Atos who over-ruled her doctors and declared her ‘fit-for-work’
Scottish independence is a lifeboat for disabled Scots: To vote YES is a vote for life. It is NOT a vote of no solidarity with our disabled sisters and brothers south of the border … Continue readingScottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts
“This is the day, our day, Scotland’s day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland’s future and hear the infant cries of a new country,” … Continue readingScotland faces “severest cuts in political history, over and above the retrenchment of the last few years” if it votes for the status quo
The link between the struggling economy and the devaluing of disabled people’s lives … Continue readingDisability Cuts and The Economics of Dicing With Death