Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
By John Pring Disability News Service September 7th 2017 Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are to consider boycotting any engagement with
Continue readingDPOs consider boycott of government engagement over ‘misrepresentation’ at UN
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
By John Pring Disability News Service 21st July 2017 A senior civil servant has admitted to MPs and peers that
Continue readingSenior civil servant admits draft industrial strategy failed on disability
By John Pring Disability News Service July 2017 Labour’s shadow chancellor has called for disabled people themselves to be given
By John Pring Disability News Service July 13th 2017 The government has ignored key evidence that demonstrates widespread breaches of
Continue readingGovernment’s UN response ‘exposes failings on disability convention’
By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The concept of personal assistance has been severely damaged by
Continue readingYears of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’
Image Courtesy of Mirror By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The two newest disabled MPs in
Continue readingNew disabled MPs back fresh call to reopen access fund
Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused
Continue readingNew disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A new report has called for greater awareness of the
Continue readingDisabled people ‘have too little awareness of rights’ in lead-up to Brexit
B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of
Continue readingRebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“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#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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Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based
Continue readingVote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have
Continue readingDWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’