Disability News Service – Black Triangle Campaign

MInd, National Survivor User Network, Rethink

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

May 3, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is

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Daniel Donaldson, Legal Spark

Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

May 3, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against

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National Survivor User Network, Professor Simon Wessely, UNCRPD

Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

May 3, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the

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DRUK, Eleanor Lisney AOEF, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, LIz Sayce, More United, The Government Equalities Office (GEO)

Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

May 3, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of

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DWP, Grahame Morris MP, John Slater, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports

May 3, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Tens of thousands of disabled people could have had

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Citizens’ Assembly on Social Care, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Inclusion London, Linda Burnip, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, Tracey Lazard

Social care ‘citizens’ assembly’ set up by MPs omits DPOs from panel of experts

April 28, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 A consultation event set up by MPs to produce recommendations from

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Disability Benefits Consortium, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, MInd, Pluss, Remploy, RNIB, ROFA, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Sisters of Frida, Tory. Tories, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme

DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent

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#Human Catastrophe, Dr Paul Litchfield, DWP, Micheal O'Sullivan, Prof Malcolm Harrington, Stephen Carre, WCA Deaths

DWP ‘failed to show WCA reviewer evidence of links to benefit deaths’

April 26, 2018April 28, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions appears to have admitted failing

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#Human Catastrophe, Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Inclusion London, MHRN, Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, Recovery in the Bin, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), UC, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Letter calls on GP body to denounce DWP’s ‘fit for work coercion’

April 26, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The national membership body for GPs is facing calls for it

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DWP, ICO, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, SNP

Mother of ESA suicide woman pledges to continue fight for justice

April 19, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after being wrongly

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Black Triangle Campaign, Class War Scotland, DPAC Glasgow, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, Marion Nisbet, SNP

Mother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey

April 19, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability

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Action On Hearing (RNID), DWP, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, Pluss, REED, Remploy, RNIB, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Turning Point, Work & Health programme

Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’

April 19, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 19 April 2018 Disability charities that sign up to help deliver the government’s new

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DWP, Interwork, Maximus, Remploy

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

April 12, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme

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Access to Elected Office Fund, Disability Politics UK, EHRC, More United., UNCRPD

Government faces legal action over election access fund

April 12, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over

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Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

April 12, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version

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Disability Action Alliance, DRUK, DWP, The Alliance for Inclusive Education

Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’

April 12, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging

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British Airways (BA), CAA, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), EHRC, Rachael Monk.

Equality watchdog calls for court action over BA’s PA ticket ‘discrimination’

March 23, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if

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Assistance Dogs International, CAA, International Guide Dog Federation, Sherlock Hounds Assistance Dogs (SHAD)

Admission by aviation regulator is latest step in assistance dogs aircraft battle

March 23, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears

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Disability Labour, Discrimination Law Association, DRUK, EHRC, Proudlock Associates

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

March 23, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited

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CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

March 23, 2018 Holmey

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13

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