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MInd, National Survivor User Network, Rethink

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

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is

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National Survivor User Network, Professor Simon Wessely, UNCRPD

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

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the

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DRUK, Eleanor Lisney AOEF, Equality Act, Labour Party, Lib Dems, LIz Sayce, More United, The Government Equalities Office (GEO)

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

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 The government is finally set to publish a long-awaited review of

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Black Triangle Campaign, Class War Scotland, DPAC Glasgow, Jodey Whiting, Joy Dove, Marion Nisbet, SNP

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

April 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 19th April 2018 The mother of a woman who killed herself after her disability

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DWP, Interwork, Maximus, Remploy

Redundancy threat hangs over Remploy workers as DWP funding ends

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Disabled Remploy workers who are part of a supported employment programme

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Access to Elected Office Fund, Disability Politics UK, EHRC, More United., UNCRPD

Government faces legal action over election access fund

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Three disabled politicians have begun legal action against the government over

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Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Dependability Ltd, DWP, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version

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Disability Action Alliance, DRUK, DWP, The Alliance for Inclusive Education

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

April 12, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th April 2018 The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging

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#Human Catastrophe, A.S., Assessments, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, DWP, Human Rights, PIP

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

April 6, 2018 JJ

Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told

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British Airways (BA), CAA, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), EHRC, Rachael Monk.

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

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality watchdog has called for the courts to decide if

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Assistance Dogs International, CAA, International Guide Dog Federation, Sherlock Hounds Assistance Dogs (SHAD)

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

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disabilty News Service 22nd March 2018 The aviation regulator is being forced to change guidance that appears

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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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CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS

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

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13

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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)

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

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government’s decision to loosen its restrictions on Access to Work

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Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, Proudlock Associates, Tracey Proudlock

Government rejects nearly all recommendations from MPs’ access inquiry

March 23, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The government has accepted just three of 23 recommendations made

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British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dignitas, Distant Voices, NICE, Not Dead Yet, Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)

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

February 16, 2018February 19, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for

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Civil Legal Advice, EHRC, Ministry of Justice, Public Law Project

Legal advice concerns after government abandons search for new contractors

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Lawyers and campaigners have raised fresh concerns about the government’s approach

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Action On Disability, Disability Justice Project, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign

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

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A Deaf chief executive has won the right to question the

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DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ester McVey, Linda Burnip, Motability, PIP, WOW Campaign

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

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability

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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)

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

February 15, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 15th February 2018 A watchdog is examining the failure of two healthcare regulators to

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