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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Senior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability
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 →
McDonnell calls for disabled-led solution to care crisis, as DPAC occupies parliament
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 →
Government’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’
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 →
Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’
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 →
New disabled MPs back fresh call to reopen access fund
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 →
New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
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 →
Disabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit
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 →
UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
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 →
Rebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise
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 →
UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
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 →
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits
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 →
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Labour ‘will take a human rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people
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 →
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people
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 →
#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future
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 →
#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
“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)
Continue reading →Nobody is Unfit for Work
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 →
Vote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
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 →
DWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
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 →
Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’
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 →