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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

September 1, 2021 JJ

“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption

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Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination

May 3, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 3rd May 2018 A disabled lawyer has launched a ground-breaking legal case against

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

February 9, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service February 8th 2018 Disabled people should be concerned that the process of leaving

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DWP U-turns on PIP mobility rules that were based on ‘unsupported opinions’

January 26, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 25th January 2018 A government climbdown over new disability benefit rules that were found

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Backlash over ‘terrible insult’ of McVey’s DWP appointment

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 11th January 2018 Campaigners have reacted furiously to the decision to appoint

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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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Shocking’ NHS stats show nearly half ESA claimants have attempted suicide

December 1, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service November 30th 2017 “Shocking” NHS statistics have revealed that almost half of the people

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Watchdog’s report shows impact of years of ‘hostile’ cuts on disabled people

November 24, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 23rd November 2017 Families which include both a disabled adult and a disabled child

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New minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record

November 17, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 16th November 2017 The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her

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ADAPT (USA), DAN, ROFA, Sean McGovern, TUC

Summit hears calls on direct action, assessment boycotts and hate crime

November 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 A new handbook on direct action, a national day of action

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Disabled people ‘will go into government alongside Labour’, says McDonnell

November 10, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th November 2017 Disabled people and their organisations will “determine” and “implement” the

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Scottish Governments Final Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts

November 7, 2017 JJ

The shocking rise of childhood poverty(UK data), with all its associated harms, which will take us back 20 years. From

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David Gawke, Deidre Brock, EHRC, ODI, Penny Mordaunt, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

October 20, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning

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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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Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Fiona Robertson, John McArdle, SNP, UN, UNCRPD

SNP hears ‘justice for the dead’ demand as it backs call to implement UN report

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government

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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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Tory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has admitted that the system

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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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Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Ellen Clifford, John McArdle, Sarah Rennie, Sisters of Frida, UNCRPD

UN demands annual UK progress report on correcting ‘grave and systematic violations’

September 7, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 A UN committee has told the UK government to produce

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