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  By Steven Naysmith  http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15508062.UK_Government_cuts_driving_disabled_people_into_poverty__key_UN_committee_says/ Reblogged DISABLED people are dying as a result of austerity measures and discrimination, campaigners have claimed, after the UK Government was sharply criticised by a United Nations watchdog committee. Equal Lives chief executive Mark Harrison said: “In … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equal Lives, Human Rights, Inclusion London, Inclusion Scotland, John McArdle, ROFA, Sally Witcher | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | 1 Reply

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 the government’s industrial strategy will not be “fit for purpose” unless it corrects its failure to consider disability and other … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alex Williams, All party parliamentary group for disability (APPGD), Aspire, Disability Confident, Dr Lisa Cameron SNP MP, DRUK, EHRC, Green Paper, Jared O'Mara, Philip Connolly, Two Ticks | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament

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By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given the job of designing the solution to the social care funding crisis. John McDonnell was speaking to Disability News Service … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, HOC, Human Rights, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, Winvisible | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

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 the UN disability convention, according to disabled people’s grassroots groups and organisations that are working together to expose its failings. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Wales, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion Scotland, Linda Burnip, ROFA, UNCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017   The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by years of austerity and policies that have “degraded” the support mechanisms designed to enable independent living, leading figures in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Baroness Jane Campbell, Dr Andrea Stockl, Dr Tom Porter, Equal Lives, Hammersmith and Fulham Coalition Against Cuts, Inclusion London, Independant Living Alternatives, NCIL, Professor Tom Shakespeare, UN, UNCRPD | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Society, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

New disabled MPs back fresh call to reopen access fund

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Image Courtesy of Mirror   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The two newest disabled MPs in the House of Commons have backed a call for the government to reopen a fund that helped politicians meet the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Caroline Lucas, Disability Discrimination, Disability Politics UK, Green Party, Marsh de Cordova, Stephen Llyod, UN, UNCRPD | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

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Picture Courtesy of Guardian   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Disabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit

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By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017   A new report has called for greater awareness of the rights enjoyed by disabled people through the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU), as the country moves towards Brexit. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Action On Disability, Breakthrough UK, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, Disability Law Hub, Disability Wales, DRUK, Inclusion Scotland, Independant lives, Leicestershire Centre for Integrated Living, LIz Sayce, Real, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Spinal Injuries Association, Tories, UN, UNCRPD, York Independant Living Network | Tagged Austerity, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

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B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government guilty of violating the UN disability convention has revealed for the first time that its breaches of the human rights … Continue reading →

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Posted in CRPD, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Linda Burnip, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Rebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017   The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of trying to create a smokescreen to hide its past failures and “appalling reputation”, after quietly announcing that it is changing … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Conservative Disability Group, Conservatives, DWP, EHRC, Gail Ward, Human Rights, John McArdle, Paul Gray | Tagged Atos, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Capita, Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, PIP, Politics, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

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Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an Oxfordshire market. ‘UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories’ By Linda Burnip DPAC in New Internationalist Thursday 1st … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ian Duncan Smith, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, PIP, PIP Deaths, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign, WOW Petition | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

#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 cuts.  The SNP general election manifesto, published this week, says the party will fight to end the “appalling Tory welfare … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, CRPD, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Inclusion Scotland, Maximus, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, PIP, Scotland, Scottish National Party, Scottish politics, SNP, SNP Manifesto, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people

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Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people  Labour has promised that it will take a “rights-based approach” to protecting the interests of disabled people, if it wins power at next week’s general election.  At the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people

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  Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017   THE TORY minister for disabled people has failed to oppose the idea of forcing disabled people into institutions against their … Continue reading →

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle News, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, DWP, Equal Lives, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Penny Mordaunt, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Tories, Tory, UN, United Nations | Tagged disability rights, Human rights, ILF, Independent Living Fund, Right to Independent Living, save ilf, UNCRPD, UNCRPD Investigation | Leave a reply

#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future

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BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017 Appalled disabled activists have warned the British Medical Association (BMA) that it will be “complicit” in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, British Medical Association, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GMC, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Tory. Tories, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, cuts, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

#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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“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP)

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Access To work, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, PIP Deaths, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Shaping our Lives, SNP, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UC, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | Leave a reply

Nobody is Unfit for Work

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  What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and identifying measures to help you and other claimants. It would be good to have some feedback on the Health and … Continue reading →

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Posted in BMA, Conservative Disability Group, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality Act, GMC, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, Human Rights, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, Maximus, Penny Mourdant, Tories, UC, Universal Credit, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Vote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people

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    Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based campaign and we support our struggle for Scottish independence and freedom from Tory rule – forever. We will therefore be … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog, Conservatives, Gail Ward, Labour Party, Mo Stewart, Psychologists Against Austerity, Shaping our Lives, Spartacus Network | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017   The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have gone back on its promise to a tribunal to address a fatal flaw in its “fitness for work” test that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Maximus, Prof Malcolm Harrington | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, David Barr, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Mark Wood, Ms D E, Paul Donanachie, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Stephen Carr'e, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

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By John  Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’ failure to make the reasonable adjustments that would make the court process accessible to them, according to a disabled human … Continue reading →

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Posted in Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equal Treatment Bench Book, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Reasonable Adjustments, UK news, UNCRPD | Leave a reply

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