Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
Disabled Michael O’Sullivan had already tried to take his own life once before because of government attempts to force him back to work … Continue reading#JFMOS Michael O’Sullivan scandal: DWP twice pushed dad-of-two to suicide bid
Black Triangle’s List of Deaths Linked to Benefit Loss arising from Welfare Reforms Wednesday 20th October 2015 Please note: Although
Friday 25th September 2015 By John Pring Disability News Service Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if
Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’ By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people
Continue readingQueen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come
Director, Communications Civil Service, Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) March 2014 – Present (1 year 2 months)London, United Kingdom
Letters to The Herald Saturday 25th April 2015 WE note that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has
By Stephen Naysmith Social Affairs Correspondent Herald Scotland Wednesday 22 April 2015 Journalist John Pring is not a
17 April 2015 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out its threat to stop answering any questions
Continue readingDWP carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service
24 April 2015 By John Pring, Disability News Service The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they
Continue readingELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund … Continue readingSecond court case to challenge ILF closure in England and Wales launched
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT
By Rob McDowall A raft of changes introduced by the Conservative Lib-Dem Coalition has once again made ‘welfare’ and ‘benefits’
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.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract … Continue readingBlack Triangle Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy
Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival … Continue readingLorraine from Glasgow had cancer but was forced to starve and rely on the foodbank by DWP-Atos who over-ruled her doctors and declared her ‘fit-for-work’
Black Triangle and fellow anti-workfare demonstrators blockade Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh … Continue readingAnti-workfare demonstrators blockade Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh