Mum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12 th October 2017 A disabled woman with a new baby is set
Continue readingMum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’
By John Pring Disability News Service 12 th October 2017 A disabled woman with a new baby is set
Continue readingMum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct5th 2017 Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer
Continue readingTory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Disabled activists have criticised “heavy-handed” police tactics at a direct action
Continue readingTory conference: Activists criticise ‘heavy-handed’ police action at tram protest
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 The Conservative minister for care services turned down at least
Continue readingTory conference: Care minister hides from fringe as funding crisis deepens
By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has admitted that the system
Continue readingTory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head
Continue readingLabour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with
Continue readingDPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN
Reblogged Article by Adam Hill Sept 7th 2017 New figures released by Police Scotland show a huge rise in people
By Steven Naysmith http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15508062.UK_Government_cuts_driving_disabled_people_into_poverty__key_UN_committee_says/ Reblogged DISABLED people are dying as a result of austerity measures and discrimination, campaigners have
By John Pring Disability News Service August 24th 2017 An international committee of disabled human rights experts
Continue readingUK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 Disabled campaigners have written to a government minister to warn
Continue readingMinister told ‘alarm bells are ringing’ over disability hate crime
By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has broken its
Continue readingDWP breaks promise to stop harassing child abuse victim in run-up to trial
By John Pring Disability News Service August 17th 2017 A furious disability benefit claimant has produced what she says is
Continue reading‘My picture is proof that healthcare professionals lie in benefit assessments’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many
Continue readingMinisters ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using
Continue readingDWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2107 A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has intervened in a “hugely significant”
Continue readingDPO plans court vigil as it intervenes in ‘hugely significant’ Care Act case
By John Pring Disability News Service August 10th 2017 A nurse failed to mention a disabled woman’s near-fatal asthma
Continue readingRecordings prove PIP report ignored near-fatal attacks, overdoses and blackouts
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher
Continue readingUniversal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’
By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd August 2017 The disabled peer chosen to be the equality watchdog’s new disability
Continue readingDisabled peer continues three-month boycott of EHRC board meetings
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 The new boss of Disability Rights UK (DR UK) has pledged to
Continue readingDRUK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups