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User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is facing closure next month if it cannot secure new funding, after becoming the latest victim of competition from large, non-user-led … Continue reading →

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Posted in MInd, National Survivor User Network, Rethink | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over his claim that it deliberately discriminated against him in rejecting his claim … Continue reading →

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Posted in Daniel Donaldson, Legal Spark | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Society, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the interim report of a review into mental health legislation in England and Wales ordered by the prime minister. One campaigner … Continue reading →

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Posted in National Survivor User Network, Professor Simon Wessely, UNCRPD | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision

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By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election but has been closed … Continue reading →

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Posted in DRUK, Eleanor Lisney AOEF, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, LIz Sayce, More United, The Government Equalities Office (GEO) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

DWP’s ‘disrepute’ contract clause ‘is proof charities cannot be trusted’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 26th April 2018 The decision of some disability charities to sign contracts that prevent them criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proof that they cannot be trusted to speak up on … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Benefits Consortium, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Inclusion London, Ingeus, Leonard Cheshire Disability(LCD), Maximus, MInd, Pluss, Remploy, RNIB, ROFA, Royal Association of Deaf People (RADP), Shaw Trust, Sisters of Frida, Tory. Tories, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, John Pring, Politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Mother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey

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By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability benefits were sanctioned has praised a disabled activist who confronted work and pensions secretary Esther McVey about her daughter’s death … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Class War Scotland, DPAC Glasgow, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, Marion Nisbet, SNP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

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

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 Disabled activists are hoping their latest protest in the heart of Westminster will empower other disabled people to follow their lead and fight the government’s social security cuts and reforms. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Andy Greene, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Laura Pidcock, Marion Nisbet, Sarah Newton MP, Universal Credit | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Labour, Politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Government faces legal action over election access fund

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By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over its failure to reopen a fund that supported Deaf and disabled people with the extra costs of standing for election … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Disability Politics UK, EHRC, More United., UNCRPD | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Equality watchdog calls for court action over BA’s PA ticket ‘discrimination’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if airlines are discriminating against disabled people by refusing to allow them to make simple alterations to tickets bought for their … Continue reading →

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Posted in British Airways (BA), CAA, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), EHRC, Rachael Monk. | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

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

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  Responding to the Spring Statement, John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor said: Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me with an earlier sight of his statement. I say to the Chancellor: his complacency today is astounding. We face – … Continue reading →

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Posted in John McDonnell, Labour Party | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Labour, Politics, Poverty, Spring Budget 2018 | Leave a reply

Anger over Royal Society’s ‘love fest for euthanasia’ conference

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for hosting a conference on “choice at the end of life” that was little more than a “love fest for euthanasia”. … Continue reading →

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Posted in British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dignitas, Distant Voices, NICE, Not Dead Yet, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Deaf chief executive wins right to challenge Access to Work cap in court

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the government’s “discriminatory” cap on Access to Work (AtW) payments in the high court, in the latest legal challenge to the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Action On Disability, Disability Justice Project, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

DWP quietly dumps plan to trial softer sanctions regime

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 15th Feburary 2018 Ministers have quietly dumped their promise to test a gentler approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time. The Department for Work and Pensions … Continue reading →

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Posted in BuDS Buckingham Disability Service, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip | Tagged Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Benefit assessment report welcomed, but concern over ‘preventable harm’ failings

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have welcomed a report by MPs on disability benefit assessments, which they say highlights “serious multiple failures”, but many believe it should have done more to highlight the serious … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Debbie Abrahams, DRUK, Inclusion London, John McArdle, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Maggie Zolobajluk, Mo Stewart, ROFA | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Benefit assessment system undermined by culture of mistrust, say MPs

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 The disability benefit assessment system is being undermined by a “pervasive culture of mistrust”, fuelled by widespread claims that assessors are deliberately trying to prevent disabled people receiving the support they … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Atos, Capita, DWP, Frank Field, Heidi Allen, Maximus, PIP, Tory. Tories, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Disabled people need ‘equal and fair’ hate crime laws, MPs are told

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  By John Pring Disability News Service  February 8th 2018 Disabled people will only be protected from online abuse when they have “equal and fair” hate crime laws, a leading disabled campaigner has told MPs. Anne Novis, chair of Inclusion … Continue reading →

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Posted in Anne Novis, Disability Hate crime, Inclusion London | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Hate crime, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews

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By John Pring Disability News Service  February 8th 2018 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and “confusion” by refusing to clarify which disabled people will have their claims re-examined through its mammoth programme of disability benefit … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Atos, BuDS Buckingham Disability Service, Capita, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, Ester McVey, Here2Support, Sarah Newton Minister for Disabled People | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 1 Reply

Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving the European Union (EU) could see their rights “lost or watered down”, according to a disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, CRPD, EHRC | Tagged Austerity, Brexit, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD | 1 Reply

The PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports completed by a private sector contractor were significantly flawed, confidential Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) documents suggest. The figures … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, John Slater, PIP, Sarah Newton MP, Tory, Tory. Tories | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

The PIP Files: Data shows multiple complaints made against scores of Atos assessors

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  By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Scores of healthcare professionals may have been able to continue carrying out disability benefit assessments despite being the subject of multiple complaints about their behaviour, competence and honesty, confidential new … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, Anita Bellows, Assessments, Atos, Capita, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Frank Field, ICO Information Commissioners Office, John Slater | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 2 Replies

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