Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
by John Pring Disability News Service 3rd November 2016 Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of the equality watchdog’s disability
Continue readingActivists welcome disability commissioner’s decision to leave EHRC
By John Pring Disability News Service October 28th 2016 A leading psychiatrist who helped the government draft guidance that
Continue readingProfessors’ silence after DWP waters down their guidance on preventing WCA suicides
13th October 2016 By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that
Continue readingMSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 The Conservative party has refused to explain why ministers appear
Continue readingTory conference: Mowat hides from heat over social care crisis
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making
Continue readingMinisters know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach
October 3rd 2016 Yesterday we received the announcement from Damien Green that reassessments were to cease, Black Triangle unequivocally
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 A Labour government would replace the “discredited” fitness
Continue readingLabour conference: Abrahams says party will scrap WCA… but not sanctions
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016 or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such
Continue readingDWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 21st 2016 The sister of a man driven to suicide
Continue reading‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal
15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ The equality watchdog’s new chair, who is set to lead an investigation into whether Tory
Continue readingFoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The new co-leader of the Green party has told Disability News Service
Continue readingGreen’s new co-leader credits Independent Living Fund campaign
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service Senior figures in the Labour and Green parties have pledged to
Continue readingILF closure cuts report produces instant results from Labour and Greens
September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider
Continue readingBenefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
August 28th 2016 By Mo Stewart “Stewart names names. She shows where and how the policies originated. She destroys
11th August 2016 The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it
Continue readingGovernment ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs
11th August 2016 Disabled activists are to hold a week of action to coincide with the start of the Rio
Continue readingDPAC will use Paralympics to highlight austerity impact in week of action
4th August 2016 John Pring A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to
Continue readingDocuments show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy
Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after a long court battle to get those taking
Continue readingCampaigners Call for Boycott Of Workfare Slave Labourers
The government is facing calls for a “fundamental rethink” of its approach to Access to Work (AtW), after new figures
Continue readingDrop in Access to Work numbers shows DWP ‘is strangling the scheme’
Disabled people’s organisations and grassroots groups are set to call on disabled people across England to provide the evidence they
Continue readingDelayed UN examination of UK government ‘will take place next year’