Labour – Black Triangle Campaign

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 JJ

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

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Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit

DPAC’s universal credit ‘crime scene’ protest is fresh call for action to disabled people

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart

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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 JJ

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

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John McDonnell, Labour Party

Spring statement: “As always the harshest cuts are falling on disabled people”

March 14, 2018 JJ

Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me

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Alice Kirby, Disabled Survivors Unite (DSU), DWP

DWP breaks promise again to stop harassing abuse survivor over benefit claim

February 1, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has again broken

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Blog, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases

February 1, 2018 JJ

John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has promised that no

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DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Keith Walker, Marsha de Cordova, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People

Activists explain why they ‘clashed’ with minister after PIP debate

February 1, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 1st 2018 Two disabled activists have explained why they “clashed” with the minister

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Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, John McDonnell, Labour Party, OCAP

Basic Income In The Neoliberal Age

January 14, 2018January 14, 2018 JJ

Reblogged Deepest thanks to Socialist Project for working with us in OCAP to put out this pamphlet. It

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Ian Lucas MP, ILF Fund, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Nathan Lee Davies, Patricia Gibson MP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, SNP, Tories, Tory. Tories

Minister hid judges’ criticism of McVey from MPs, hours after shock appointment

January 11, 2018 JJ

Image Courtesy of The Mirror By John Pring Disability New Service 11th January 2018 The minister for disabled people

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Frank Field, Paul Gray, PIP, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Minister fails to back measures to protect claimants from dishonest assessors

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service December 21st 2017 The minister for disabled people has refused to approve two key

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Dr Gordon Waddell, Dr Paul Litchfield, Professor Nicholas Watson, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Expert chosen by DWP appears to suggest scrapping ‘fitness for work’ test

December 22, 2017December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 The occupational health expert chosen by the government to review its

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Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Denise McKenna, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Dr Jay Watts, DWP, Frank Field, John McArdle, Linda Burnip, MHRN, Mo Stewart, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Fury over MPs’ refusal to quiz minister on ‘staggering’ WCA suicide figures

December 22, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service December 21st 2017 “Furious” disabled campaigners have attacked MPs on a Commons committee

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Black Triangle Campaign, John McArdle, Johnathan Ashworth, Labour Party, Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives, Social Care

Research linking care cuts to 120,000 deaths ‘is fresh evidence austerity kills’

November 17, 2017November 19, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 “Indisputable” new research has linked government cuts in adult social care

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DRUK, John Healey, National Housing Federation, Theresa May

‘Caution’ urged over government’s supported housing U-turn

November 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 Long-term supported housing will continue to be funded through the social

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Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, PIP, Work and Pensions Select Committee

PIP investigation: Hundreds give evidence of assessment failings to MPs

November 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 Scores of disabled people and welfare advisers have told

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Debbie Jolly, Eleanor Firman., Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Marsha de Cordova, Robert Dellar, ROFA, Sisters of Frida, Sophie Partridge

National summit set to build new alliances and ‘reinvigorate’ the movement

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Organisers of a national “summit meeting” of disabled people’s organisations

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Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Marsha de Cordova, Motobility, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after

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Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she

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Barbara Keeley, NIck Forbes

Labour conference: No vote on tax-funded social care system, at least until 2018

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour has promised an extra £3 billion a year to

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#Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ellen Clifford, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, PCS, UNCRPD

Labour conference: Abrahams pledges ‘supportive and enabling’ social security system

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the

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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 …

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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.

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