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#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

Queen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come

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  Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’  By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years, disabled campaigners have … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog | Tagged Austerity, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, Scottish independence, Scottish National Party (SNP), SNP, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 4 Replies

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: Labour’s disability mini-manifesto chaos

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  23 April 2015  By John Pring, Disability News Service ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos Labour’s launch of its disability manifesto has descended into chaos after major disagreements between a shadow minister and a leading disabled election candidate over … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Access to Work, Bert Massie, Disability, Disability and Poverty Taskforce, Disability News Service, DLA, DNS, EHRC, Emily Brothers, Equality Act, Equality Act 2010, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Kate Green, Labour, Mini Manifesto, ODI, Office of Disability Issues, PIP, Rachel Reeves, WCA, Work Capability Assessment, Work Choice, Work Programme | Leave a reply

Disabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage

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Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Comment & debate, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Yes Scotland | 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

Go ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant

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A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go away and be forgotten.But a wish for a return to “normal” is a wish for a Scotland that is already … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Better Together, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Business, David Cameron, Disability, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, No Campaign, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, Unionism, Welfare, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Campaign, Yes Scotland | 129 Replies

#IndyRef New Scottish Government Expert Group on Welfare Report: Scrap Work Capability Assessments, Workfare and Benefit Sanctions Regime

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  Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the Expert Working Group on Welfare looking at the medium and long term options for welfare in an independent Scotland. Executive … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, Expert Group on Welfare, Health, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 6 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

Need help and advice? The Scottish Welfare Support and Advice Network is here for YOU

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By Rob McDowall A raft of changes introduced by the Conservative Lib-Dem Coalition has once again made ‘welfare’ and ‘benefits’ bad words in the UK. Benefits and welfare are now commonly referred to as “hand-outs” and the Ministers appear to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, DWP | Tagged Benefits, Disability, disability rights, DWP, Poverty, Scotland, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 8 Replies

Personal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill

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PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Benefits, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, Disability, Iain Duncan Smith, Main section, Politics, Polly Toynbee, Society, The Guardian, UK news | 22 Replies

Letter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others

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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.’

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Comment, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, The Guardian, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Yes Scotland | 56 Replies

Bedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room policy

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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.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged abolished, Austerity, Bedroom tax, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Scotland, SNP | 52 Replies

Lorraine 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’

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Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Cancer, Common Weal, Disability, disability rights, DWP, foodbanks, Glasgow, Herald Scotland, Hunger, Iain Duncan Smith, Julie McDowall, Poverty, Robin McAlpine, Scotland, Work Capability Assessment, yes | 113 Replies

At last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies

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We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Alex Andreou, Article, Atos, Benefits, Comment, Comment is free, Disability, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Society, UK news, Welfare | 39 Replies

Declaration of Radical Independence

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“Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland.”

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Posted in Blog | Tagged anti-neoliberalism, Disability, Equality, radical independence, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, welfare state | 8 Replies

The Long Journey to Yes

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My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Austerity, Cindie Reiter, Comment, Disability, Homelessness, perspectives, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, Yes Scotland | 2 Replies

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