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Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill
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Labour MPs have voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts on disabled people who cannot work, despite a last-minute intervention by UN disability rights experts, and repeated warnings that the bill will cost lives. Despite efforts to defeat the much-changed bill, or […]

Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Human Rights

Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights
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A UN committee of disabled experts has told the government that its new benefit cuts bill appears to be a fresh attack on disabled people’s rights, a year after it issued a similar warning to the Conservative government. The letter sent […]

Race against time to secure DWP deaths evidence before parliament passes new benefit cuts bill

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Race against time to secure DWP deaths evidence before parliament passes new benefit cuts bill
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There is a race against time to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital evidence about flaws in the universal credit system before parliament passes a bill that will cut billions of pounds from disabled people’s support. […]

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Education

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE
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Inclusive education campaigners have called for a “complete shift in thinking” on how disabled children and young people are educated, just as the government faces public uproar over reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. There were widespread […]

Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill
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A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credit and personal independence payment bill. Minutes of a meeting in March […]

Frustration after government only issues partial ban on new floating bus stops

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Transport

Frustration after government only issues partial ban on new floating bus stops
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Disabled campaigners have expressed their frustration with ministers after they imposed a “pause” on the most dangerous types of “floating” bus stop but refused to halt the rollout of all such installations. The National Federation of the Blind of the UK […]

Report suggests five big ideas that could transform disabled people’s mobility

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Transport

Report suggests five big ideas that could transform disabled people’s mobility
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A new report – co-produced with a disabled people’s organisation – has suggested five “big ideas” that could transform disabled people’s mobility. The Transforming Mobility report aims to ensure disabled people are included when places “become more ambitious in transforming mobility”. […]

My new book shows exactly why we need the disability movement, says disabled author

By John Pring on 10th July 2025 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

My new book shows exactly why we need the disability movement, says disabled author
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A disabled journalist has said she hopes her new book detailing the history of disability activism will show other disabled people how they can fight back against the waves of attacks on their rights and support. Rachel Charlton-Dailey’s book, Ramping Up […]

‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’
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Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite forcing ministers into last-minute changes that scrapped all their planned cuts to personal independence payment (PIP). Chaotic events in parliament on Tuesday, and three […]

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

By John Pring on 3rd July 2025 Category: Politics

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits
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Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ chaotic last-ditch concessions to rebels that removed a significant chunk of their cuts bill. Marsha de Cordova, Marie Tidball and Emma Lewell all voted […]

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Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, and UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill

Urgent letter from UN to Labour government warns: We think your cuts continue Tory attack on disability rights

Race against time to secure DWP deaths evidence before parliament passes new benefit cuts bill

‘Complete shift in thinking’ needed on education of disabled children, says ALLFIE

Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill

Frustration after government only issues partial ban on new floating bus stops

Report suggests five big ideas that could transform disabled people’s mobility

My new book shows exactly why we need the disability movement, says disabled author

‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

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