Conference hears of ‘democide’, ‘psycho-compulsion’ and suicide risk from benefit system
October 13th 2016 By John Pring- Disability News Service Mental health survivors and psychologists have joined forces for a
October 13th 2016 By John Pring- Disability News Service Mental health survivors and psychologists have joined forces for a
13th October 2016 By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that
Continue readingMSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths
October 6th 2016 Today John McArdle from Black Triangle spoke at the Social Security Committee to
Continue readingBlack Triangle speaks out to the Scottish Social Security Committee
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making
Continue readingMinisters know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 The government has confirmed that sick and disabled people who will
Continue readingTory conference: PIP claimants will not be spared retests, DWP admits
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of
October 3rd 2016 Black Triangle supports our comrades and will be raising this issue at Social Security
Continue readingDefend the Right to be Accompanied at Job Centre Interviews
October 3rd 2016 Yesterday we received the announcement from Damien Green that reassessments were to cease, Black Triangle unequivocally
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 A Labour government would replace the “discredited” fitness
Continue readingLabour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such
Continue readingDWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 21st 2016 The sister of a man driven to suicide
Continue reading‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal
September 17th By George Berger for DPAC http://dpac.uk.net/2016/09/two-apparent-irregularities-involving-unum-atos-and-dwp/ Debbie Jolly, Jonathan Rutherford, and Mo Stewart have discussed the influence
Continue readingTwo Apparent Irregularities Involving UNUM, ATOS, And DWP
11th September 2016 a feature article by – Mo Stewart As a concept, it’s extraordinary. As a political policy, it’s a killer.
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider
Continue readingBenefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in
Continue readingCrisis and resistance in mental health services in England
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
August 25th 2016 Paralympians heading to Rio next week have lost their Motability vehicles after being reassessed as part of
Continue readingGovernment ‘has stripped Paralympians of their Motability vehicles’
August 25th 2016 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths
Continue readingDWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews
18th August 2016 Problems with the flawed computer system used to deal with claims for the government’s new disability benefit
11th August 2016 A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap
Continue readingCharity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap