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Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart

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

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

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    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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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National summit set to build new alliances and ‘reinvigorate’ the movement

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  By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Organisers of a national “summit meeting” of disabled people’s organisations

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

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

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