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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

Lower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people

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By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in just one month, after the government introduced a new, lower cap on the total benefits that any non-working household can … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, CPAG, Damien Green, DWP, Karen Buck, Labour Party, PIP, Policy In Practice, Shelter, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WRAG Cuts, Z2K | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Cap, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

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By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard employer of disabled people under its own much-criticised scheme, despite being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business Disability Forum, Civil Service, Conservatives, Damien Green, David Gillon, Disability Confident, DWP, UKCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

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By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017   Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who carry out disability benefit assessments, but their inquiry has had to be abandoned because of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, Damien Green, DRUK, Inclusion London, PIP | Tagged Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, PIP, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Pushed to the Brink

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By Ruth Hunt Morning Star Alice Kirby tells Ruth Hunt how DWP benefit assessment practices contribute to the deterioration of claimants’ mental health, causing an increase in suicidal feelings Of late, there have been great strides made regarding the understanding … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alice Kirby, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, Maximus, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 30th March 2017   The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again failing to defend disabled people from attacks on their rights, after its peers refused to vote against “discriminatory” cuts to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Bakewell, Baroness Jane Campbell, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Penny Mourdant, PIP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | 1 Reply

DWP ‘is deliberately misleading’ benefit claimants over PIP deadline

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  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it is deliberately misleading benefit claimants into thinking they have no right of appeal if they miss the deadline for applying for the new personal independence payment (PIP). … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, LIz Sayce, PIP, Stephen Crabb | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Politics, UK news | 1 Reply

Leonard Cheshire set to scrap disabled-only team over budget black hole

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A disability charity is set to scrap a team of disabled staff members dedicated to empowering the residents of its care homes, in a bid to cope with a budgetary black hole. Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) has told its award-winning, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

Preventable Harm Is Government Policy

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Government claims that welfare reforms are necessary, disregards the inevitable deaths they created, writes researcher Mo Stewart By: Mo Stewart Date: Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 – See more at: http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/preventable-harm-government-policy#sthash.1iWr1RuX.dpuf There have been many articles regarding the negative impact of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, DWP, Unum, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, disability rights, Human rights, Politics, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 2 Replies

#DavidClapson #SanctionsDeaths: IDS rejects three key calls from MPs on sanctions safety

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22nd October 2015 The government has rejected three key recommendations by a cross-party committee of MPs that were aimed at improving the safety and transparency of its benefits sanctions regime. In its response … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, David Cameron, David Clapson, Diabetes, Diabetic, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, foodbanks, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, sanctions, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Workfare | Leave a reply

#JFMOS #PMQs David Cameron challenged twice in a minute over disability rights violations

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By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 22 October 2015 The prime minister has had to defend his record on disability rights twice in a minute, after being questioned about both a UN inquiry and the death of a north … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged #JFMOS, Angus Robertson, Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Corbyn, cuts, David Cameron, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Jeremy Corbyn, John Pring, Labour, Michael O'Sullivan, PMQ, PMQs, Politics, Prime Minister's Questions, Scotland, Scottish National Party, SNP, UNCRPD, Welfare, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 3 Replies

#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: Inquest notes expose shocking failings of WCA system

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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.

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, David Cameron, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, Right to Life, UN, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | Leave a reply

Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Atos ‘has no idea’ if surgeon is still assessing claimants 

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Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if a former surgeon whose flawed assessment of a disabled man helped trigger his suicide is still testing people with mental … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Coroner, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael O'Sullivan, Scotland, Suicide, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

GE15 The Disability Audit ~ In the name of love put an end to this vile pogrom on disabled people NOW!

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‘The Disability Audit: the eight coalition policies that have hit disabled people’ By Frances Ryan New Statesman After looking in detail at all the changes to the benefits system in the last five years, it’s only possible to come to one conclusion: … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, cuts, Democide, Disability, Disabled, Disabled People Against Cuts, Frances Ryan, GE15, New Statesman, Tories | Leave a reply

ELECTION 2015: SNP pledges to block coalition’s PIP and DLA disability spending cuts

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  23 April 2015  By John Pring, Disability News Service The Scottish National Party (SNP) has pledged to block plans to cut spending on disability benefits by £3 billion by 2017-18, if enough of its MPs are elected. In one of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability Cuts, Disability News Service, DLA, DNS, Eilidh Whiteford, GE15, John Pring, PIP, Scottish National Party (SNP) | 1 Reply

UK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014

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  Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg: They shall be remembered forevermore. Avenge the dead. Resuscitate the living. We must fight on for freedom from Westminster’s murderous … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Poverty, Rachel Reeves, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

Second court case to challenge ILF closure in England and Wales launched

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Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund

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Posted in Blog | Tagged #SaveILF, Austerity, Black Triangle, cuts, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DPAC, High Court, Human Rights Abuses, Judicial Review, Save The Independent Living Fund Campaign, Tory Party | 260 Replies

Join the campaign to save the Independent Living Fund #SaveILF

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All I ask of you is for your help. Help us save the independent living fund from closing on 30th June 2015.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged #SaveILF, Abuse of Disabled People, Abuse of Human Rights, Abuse of Power, Austerity, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Coalition, cuts, Disabled People Against Cuts, Human Right to Independent Living, Human rights, Lib Dems, Save the Independent Living Fund, Solidarity, Tories, UNCRPD, Westminster | 9 Replies

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

Scottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts

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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

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Posted in Blog | Tagged anti-neoliberalism, Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability Living Allowance, Disability Politics, disability rights, Dismantling of the Welfare State, DLA, Dr Mark Langan, DWP, DWP Sanctions, Expert Opinion, Health, John McArdle, Leeds Metropolitan University, Mandatory Work, Personal Independence Payment, PIP, Scottish Government, Scottish independence, Scottish Independence Referendum, Social Sciences, Social Securty, Universal Credit, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Why Labour Doesn't Need Scotland, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 8 Replies

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