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Apprenticeship taskforce welcomed, despite concerns over membership

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Disabled campaigners are hoping a new government taskforce will lead to apprenticeships becoming more accessible to disabled people, despite concerns over who ministers will invite to take part. Three government departments announced this week that they have set up the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Allfie, Black Triangle News, Blog, DWP, LIz Sayce, Stephen Crabb | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, disability rights, DWP, Equality, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Pioneering £5 million DRILL programme sends out first call for funding bids

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  A pioneering programme backed by £5 million of lottery cash has issued a call for user-led teams across the UK to apply for funding to research new ways to remove the barriers to independent living faced by disabled people. … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Ian Duncan Smith, LIz Sayce, Stephen Crabb | Tagged disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Poverty, UK news | Leave a reply

It is ‘not value-for-money’ to collect vital PIP stats on 20-metre rule, says DWP

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Two disabled peers have criticised ministers for refusing to collect figures that would demonstrate the impact of a key element of new benefit rules that will see tens of thousands of people losing their Motability vehicles. The Liberal Democrat peer … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Ian Duncan Smith, LIz Sayce, PIP, Stephen Crabb | Tagged Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Society, welfare state | Leave a 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

Jailed conman who targeted disabled people ‘defrauded hundreds’

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Hundreds of disabled people are believed to have fallen victim to a “manipulative” fraudster who posed as a lawyer to steal money they were owed from discrimination cases, and then launched legal actions against them if they complained. Karl Lindon … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Hate crime | Tagged disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Police Scotland assessing possible investigation into IDS and Grayling

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  By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 5th May 2016 Scottish police are assessing whether to launch a criminal investigation into the failure of two government ministers to address a coroner’s concerns about the safety of the “fitness for … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John McArdle, Police Scotland, Scotland | 2 Replies

Disabled Access Day sees venue numbers quadruple

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More than 1,000 venues and an estimated 10,000 people took part in the second annual Disabled Access Day, according to a new report. The figures show that last month’s event, which saw eight countries taking part, attracted 10 times the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Human Rights | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights | Leave a reply

Disabled people are ‘stronger and safer’ in EU, say leading academics

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Leaving the European Union (EU) would put at risk significant improvements that have been made to the lives of disabled people over the last 15 years, according to three of the country’s leading academics working in the disability rights field. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights | Tagged Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD, welfare state | Leave a 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

‘Enforcement is key on Equality Act’

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Lawyers, campaigners, peers and academics have spoken of how disabled people can find it almost impossible to enforce their rights to equality, six years after the introduction of the Equality Act. They were speaking at a seminar in London – … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DRUK, EHRC, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, TFA, UK news, UNCRPD | 1 Reply

‘Conflict of interest’ lawyer to chair EHRC, as minister ignores MPs’ concerns

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The government has appointed a commercial lawyer to chair the equality and human rights watchdog, despite MPs raising serious concerns about a potential conflict of interest caused by his firm’s work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Human Rights | Tagged Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Human rights, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

Government set to slash equality watchdog’s budget… again

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The government has told the equality watchdog that it plans to slash its budget again, even though the financial year has already started. The planned cuts only emerged after the Government Equalities Office (GEO) told Disability News Service (DNS) that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a 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

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people in ‘destitution’, research suggests

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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are living in destitution, the first piece of research to look at extreme poverty in the UK suggests. The study, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, found that in 2015 there were 1.25 million … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, DWP, Human Rights, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 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

WATCH ‪#‎BBCQT‬ ‪#‎BBCbias‬: Man’s question to ‪Tories‬ ignored over current ‪UN‬ ‪CRPD‬ ‪‎investigation‬ into UK disability rights violations

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BBC Question Time, Grimsby, Thursday 22nd October 2015 LINK TO FULL SEGMENT [Scroll to 35 minutes 35 seconds into the programme for the question]: HERE It’s also worth pointing out that the only person who has been on Question Time … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Abuse of Disabled People, Alan Johnson, BBC, BBC BIAS, BBC Question Time, BBCQT, Benefit Cuts, Benefit Death, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, China, China State Visit, David Cameron, disability rights, Disabled People, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Germaine Greer, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, ILF, Independent Living Fund, Jonathan Dimbleby, Nadhim Zahawi, Question Time, sanctions, UK Human Rights Vilations, UN, UNCRPD, UNCRPD Investigation, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Xi Jinping | Leave a reply

#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

#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: DWP twice pushed dad-of-two to suicide bid

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Disabled Michael O’Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Disability News Service, disability rights, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, UN, UNCRPD, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | Leave a reply

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