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Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, Disability Hate Crime Network, EHRC, Home Office, Labour Party

Disability hate crime has fallen since 2007-2010, surprise new figures suggest

September 8, 2016September 10, 2016 JJ

September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service Levels of disability hate crime in England and Wales have fallen in

Continue readingDisability hate crime has fallen since 2007-2010, surprise new figures suggest

Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, John McDonnell, Labour Party

Council wants to watch abuse survivor shower and toilet to check post-ILF needs

September 8, 2016September 10, 2016 JJ

September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disabled woman has told how her local council is threatening to

Continue readingCouncil wants to watch abuse survivor shower and toilet to check post-ILF needs

Atos, Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Police, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Benefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines

September 8, 2016September 10, 2016 JJ

September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider

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Black Triangle News, DWP, WCA Deaths

DWP hides seven secret benefit suicide reviews

August 25, 2016 JJ

August 25th 2016 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to publish nine secret reviews into the deaths

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DWP, PIP

PIP computer system crashes again… twice

August 19, 2016 JJ

18th August 2016 Problems with the flawed computer system used to deal with claims for the government’s new disability benefit

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DRUK, DWP, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, LIz Sayce, Maximus, New Policy Institute NPI

Charity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap

August 11, 2016 JJ

11th August 2016 A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap

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Atos, Paralympics

Arts Council funding is ‘vote of confidence’ in disability arts organisation

August 11, 2016 JJ

11th August 2016 The Arts Council has awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds to the disability arts movement in

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Department for Communities and Local Government, Disability United

Government ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs

August 11, 2016 JJ

11th August 2016 The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it

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Atos, Capita, DWP, NMC, PIP

Atos nurse struck off over PIP assessment lies

August 11, 2016 JJ

11th August 2016 A nurse has been struck off after pretending that she had assessed disabled people for their eligibility

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Atos, Capita, DWP, NMC, PIP

DWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse

August 11, 2016 JJ

11th August 2016 John Pring DWP silent over ‘fitness for work’ tests carried out by drunk Atos nurse The Department

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Black Triangle News, Disability Wales

Access website’s inclusive solution after one man’s lifetime of photography

August 4, 2016 JJ

4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disabled campaigner has launched a new photo-based website that has put

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Capita, Disability Discrimination, DWP, PIP

Capita suspends assessor after disablist, racist Facebook posts

August 4, 2016August 4, 2016 JJ

4th August 2016 John Pring Disability News Service A disability benefits assessor with extreme right-wing sympathies has been suspended by

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CQC, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Peter Beresford, Remploy, Shaping our Lives

Maximus company ‘lied’ about user-involvement in inspection contracts

July 29, 2016 JJ

A company controlled by the disgraced US outsourcing giant Maximus apparently lied when it promised that user-led organisations would help

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The Law Society Of Scotland

Law centre’s disabled clients ‘abandoned’ by governing body

July 29, 2016 JJ

A disabled solicitor has accused his governing body of forcing him to abandon disabled clients without legal representation, after it

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Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith

Campaigners Call for Boycott Of Workfare Slave Labourers

July 29, 2016 JJ

Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after a long court battle to get those taking

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Disabled Asian Women’s Network, DWP, Equalities National Council (ENC), Include Me TOO, The Trussell Trust, Waltham Forest Black People's Mental Health Association.

Funding drought ‘shows up discrimination faced by BME groups’

July 21, 2016 JJ

Organisations that represent disabled people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities face blatant and widespread discrimination at the hands

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Allfie, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, Equal Lives, People First (Self Advocacy, Peter Beresford, ROFA, Shaping our Lives, UKDPC

ROFA’s conference hears call to build a stronger alliance

July 21, 2016 JJ

A campaigning alliance has called for disabled people and their organisations to join its fight to use the UN disability

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Allfie, CRPD, Disability Wales, DRUK, EHRC, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, ROFA, Sisters of Frida, UKCRPD, United Nations

Delayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’

July 21, 2016 JJ

Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they

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Atos, DWP, Paralympics, PIP

Cockroft’s fear of PIP reassessment and losing independence as she heads for Rio

July 21, 2016 JJ

One of Britain’s biggest stars from the London 2012 Paralympics has said she is “scared” that she will lose her

Continue readingCockroft’s fear of PIP reassessment and losing independence as she heads for Rio

Black Triangle News, DRUK, DWP, LIz Sayce

Disability employment gap: Experts demolish government excuses for WRAG cut

July 8, 2016 JJ

A trio of experts have destroyed government claims that cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people will help

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'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state
Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P
AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”
Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.
Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.
ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme
Benefits Claimants Fight Back
Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot
Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle
Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog
Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.
Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.
Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011
Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future
Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for
Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism
Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.
DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation
Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.
Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.
Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.
Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!
Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report
soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …
Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment
The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout
The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”
The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”
The Void Narking off the state since 2005
Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.
Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)
Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.
Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot
Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance
YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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