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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

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

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

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

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By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme could be at risk of losing their jobs because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to refuse … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP, Interwork, Maximus, Remploy | Tagged Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, Society, UK news | 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

Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

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By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version of the UK government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, prompting calls by disabled activists for the UK government to follow … Continue reading →

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Posted in Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’

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By John Pring  Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging blow, after it admitted that none of the bodies it set up to engage with disabled people and their organisations … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Action Alliance, DRUK, DWP, The Alliance for Inclusive Education | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Equality, John Pring, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.

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Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told that the thing that is causing you so much pain and trouble is unbeatable, that you have lost the fight … Continue reading →

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Posted in #Human Catastrophe, A.S., Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, DWP, Human Rights, PIP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, PIP, Society, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | 1 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

Admission by aviation regulator is latest step in assistance dogs aircraft battle

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By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears to discriminate against many disabled people who want to take their assistance dogs with them on commercial flights. Guidance issued … Continue reading →

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Posted in Assistance Dogs International, CAA, International Guide Dog Federation, Sherlock Hounds Assistance Dogs (SHAD) | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Society, UK news | Leave a reply

Eight years on, government announces plans to bring in access laws for tenants

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has finally agreed to bring into force long-awaited laws that will impose a duty on landlords to allow disabled tenants to make access improvements to the hallways, staircases … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Discrimination Law Association, DRUK, EHRC, Proudlock Associates | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, UK news | Leave a reply

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13 NHS primary care organisations to warn them about discriminatory policies that could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into … Continue reading →

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Posted in CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

Access to Work cap announcement ‘does not go far enough’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work (AtW) payments does not go far enough, and its “discriminatory” cap must be scrapped completely, according to disabled campaigners. They … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Action On Disability, British Deaf Association, Conservatives, Disability Justice Project, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Ester McVey, Human Rights, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign, Tory. Tories, Tracey Lazard, UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD) | Tagged Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state | Leave a reply

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made by a committee of MPs that were aimed at improving disabled people’s access to the built environment. The women and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Proudlock Associates, Tracey Proudlock | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Society, UK news | 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

Legal advice concerns after government abandons search for new contractors

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach to providing legal advice to people who need help with discrimination and special educational needs (SEN) cases, after ministers abandoned … Continue reading →

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Posted in Civil Legal Advice, EHRC, Ministry of Justice, Public Law Project | Tagged Disability News Service, Disability Politics, Equality, Human rights, 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

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability car scheme by calling for the organisation that runs it to use part of its huge financial reserves to increase … Continue reading →

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Posted in DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ester McVey, Linda Burnip, Motability, PIP, WOW Campaign | Tagged Austerity, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, John Pring, PIP, UK news | Leave a reply

Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors

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By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to punish nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists who write dishonest benefit assessment reports. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) is looking at concerns … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Capita, DWP, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Mark Lucas, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)., PIP, The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, John Pring, PIP, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 7 Replies

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