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University apologises after asking social model critic to deliver first ‘Finkelstein lecture’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 A university has been forced to remove the name of a pioneer of the disabled people’s movement from an annual series of lectures, after it invited a leading critic of his … Continue reading →

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Posted in Center of Disability Studies | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Comment, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, John Pring, Leeds University, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

In confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people

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Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts – video https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/15/theresa-may-cathy-britain-disabled-people By Frances Ryan Monday 15 May 2017 17.04 BSTLast modified on Tuesday 16 May 2017 20.30 BST Theresa May’s attempt … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CH5, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Frances Ryan, Learning Disability England, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Comment, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Equality, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

There are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

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  Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number when the general election was announced. There are, it said, 13 million disabled people in Britain. Some 89 per cent have said … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog, Capita, Independant, James Moore | Tagged Benefits, Capita, Comment, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, GE 2017, Politics, Poverty, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 2 Replies

COMMENT:Long-awaited peer reviews suggest ministers failed to act after deaths of ‘vulnerable’ claimants

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By John Pring Disability News Service Saturday 14th May 2016 After 21 months of smokescreens, excuses, obstruction and secrecy, work and pensions ministers have finally been forced to publish some of the conclusions reached by their own civil servants about … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Stephen Crabb, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Comment, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, Poverty, Society, UNCRPD, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Wheelchair taxi rules will finally come into force… after 20 years

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A report by peers on the impact of equality legislation on disabled people appears to have secured its first success, after the government agreed to bring into force taxi regulations – 20 years after they were first included in legislation. … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Human Rights, Wheelchair | Tagged Comment, Disability News Service, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Society | 1 Reply

British Disability Rights Abuses: ‘UK Government Refuses to Accept Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity’ – a report by Mo Stewart

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Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT THE HAGUE RE: MISTREATMENT OF UK SICK AND/OR DISABLED PEOPLE   UK Government Refuses to Accept Responsibility for Crimes Against … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, Comment, Comment & debate, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, Poverty, Rachel Reeves, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 123 Replies

Personal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill

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PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Benefits, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, Disability, Iain Duncan Smith, Main section, Politics, Polly Toynbee, Society, The Guardian, UK news | 22 Replies

Letter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others

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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.’

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Comment, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, The Guardian, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Yes Scotland | 56 Replies

MAKE NO MISTAKE: Iain Duncan Smith wants the end of social security

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Don’t let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man’s true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Benefits, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, Iain Duncan Smith, Main section, Politics, Society, The Guardian, Unemployment, Welfare, Zoe Williams | 116 Replies

At last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies

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We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Alex Andreou, Article, Atos, Benefits, Comment, Comment is free, Disability, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Society, UK news, Welfare | 39 Replies

The Long Journey to Yes

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My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Austerity, Cindie Reiter, Comment, Disability, Homelessness, perspectives, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, Yes Scotland | 2 Replies

Pauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past

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The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Atos, Business, Comment, Comment is free, Editorials & reply, G4S, Jeremy Seabrook, Liberal-Conservative coalition, Main section, Politics, Poverty, Serco, Social exclusion, Society, The Guardian, UK news | 11 Replies

‘Can’t work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor’ ~ An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example

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An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Atos, Banking, Barclays, Benefits, Business, Catherine Bennett, Comment, Comment is free, Main section, Mental health, Society, The Observer, UK news | 11 Replies

How the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border

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The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, James Mitchell, Main section, Politics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish National Party (SNP), Scottish politics, The Guardian, UK news | 7 Replies

It’s immoral to have food banks in one of the world’s richest countries: “These ‘genetically poor’ folk are returning food because they cannot afford to heat it up”

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‘Genetically poor’ folk are returning food from the foodbank because they cannot afford to heat it up

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Comment, Comment & features, Comment is free, David Cameron, Food banks, Food poverty, G2, George Osborne, Politics, Poverty, Society, Suzanne Moore, The Guardian, UK news, Welfare | 11 Replies

‘The Tories are creating a hostile environment – not just for migrants’ : It doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants

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With an election not far away, it doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants, writes John Harris

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, Conservatives, Immigration and asylum, John Harris, Labour, Lynton Crosby, Main section, Politics, Rachel Reeves, The Guardian, Theresa May, UK news, Yvette Cooper | 11 Replies

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