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Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability

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By John Pring Disability News Service 21st July 2017 A senior civil servant has admitted to MPs and peers that

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DRUK’s new boss pledges better links with other DPOs and grassroots groups

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 The new boss of Disability Rights UK (DR UK) has pledged to

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Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of

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Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result

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By John Pring Disability News Service  14th June 2017 Disabled activists have reacted with a mixture of anger, resignation and

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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits

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The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security

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#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon

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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

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By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,

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‘Fitness for work’ test has led to deterioration in mental health, say researchers

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By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 Disabled activists have welcomed “timely” new research that concludes that the

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DPOs join forces to brief UN on how UK has breached disability convention

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  By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017   Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have come together to tell

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Watchdog refuses to withdraw report to UN that omits benefit deaths evidence

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By John Pring Disability News service 23rd February 2017 The equality and human rights watchdog has refused to withdraw its

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UN report failure on benefit deaths by national DPOs ‘is extreme insult to activists’

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017   A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by

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Green refuses three times to apologise to Scotland for harm of benefit reforms

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By John Pring Disability News Service November 10th 2016   The work and pensions secretary Damian Green has refused three

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Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

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By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN  1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of

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MSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths

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    13th October 2016  By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that

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