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Crowdfunder in memory of Krissi Hunt could educate coroners on links between DWP and claimant deaths

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Crowdfunder in memory of Krissi Hunt could educate coroners on links between DWP and claimant deaths
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Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a […]

Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’

By John Pring on 8th May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’
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Disabled activists gate-crashed one of the government’s “sham” consultation events on its disability benefits green paper, and persuaded civil servants to let them put questions that ministers had not wanted to be asked. The direct action, led by Manchester Disabled People […]

Petition aims to unite opposition to disability benefits green paper and force MPs to debate all cuts

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Petition aims to unite opposition to disability benefits green paper and force MPs to debate all cuts
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A new petition backed by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) aims to unite opposition to the government’s “devastating” disability benefit cuts and reforms by calling for every one of the measures to be abandoned. While a string of petitions have focused on […]

Ministers could face legal action over ‘homes not hospitals’ failure after treating activists ‘with utter contempt’

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Ministers could face legal action over ‘homes not hospitals’ failure after treating activists ‘with utter contempt’
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Ministers could face legal action over their “absolutely disgraceful” refusal to meet people with learning difficulties and autistic people to discuss the failure of the mental health bill to protect them from being locked away in psychiatric hospitals. Disabled protesters outside […]

Protest brings anger at failure to act on ‘homes not hospitals’ plea to government’s front door

By John Pring on 1st May 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Protest brings anger at failure to act on ‘homes not hospitals’ plea to government’s front door
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The Labour government has “betrayed” autistic people and people with learning difficulties who have been abused and abandoned in mental health institutions, activists told a protest in front of the Houses of Parliament this week. Disabled people with experience of detention […]

RNIB has ‘washed its hands’ of braille users after ending free service, says blind campaigner

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

RNIB has ‘washed its hands’ of braille users after ending free service, says blind campaigner
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A disabled campaigner claims the disability charity RNIB has “washed its hands” of those with the most significant levels of visual impairment, after scrapping its long-established free braille transcription service. Connor Scott-Gardner (pictured), a blind campaigner from Leeds, has accused RNIB […]

Disabled people’s organisations tell Kendall benefit cuts are ‘incredibly dangerous’ and consultation is a ‘sham’

By John Pring on 10th April 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people’s organisations tell Kendall benefit cuts are ‘incredibly dangerous’ and consultation is a ‘sham’
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Leading disabled people’s organisations (DPO) have written to work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall to express “serious concerns” about the human rights implications of her “incredibly dangerous” plans to cut spending on disability benefits. They say in the letter that her […]

Disabled people’s organisations consider halting engagement with disability minister over ‘brutal cuts’

By John Pring on 3rd April 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled people’s organisations consider halting engagement with disability minister over ‘brutal cuts’
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Some of England’s leading disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) are considering halting all engagement with the minister for disabled people over the government’s “brutal cuts” to disability benefits. Disability News Service (DNS) has been told that members of the DPO Forum England […]

DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPAC says ‘this is just the start’, after protest over ‘vile and cruel’ benefit cuts outside Downing Street
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Disabled people have spoken of their anger, frustration and fear – and sense of betrayal by the Labour government – over plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits, as they protested outside Downing Street yesterday (Wednesday). Estimates suggest more […]

Forgotten and abandoned, young disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective

By John Pring on 27th March 2025 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Forgotten and abandoned, young disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective
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Hundreds of “forgotten” and “abandoned” young disabled people across the country have taken part in peaceful protests against government cuts to disability benefits, as part of a new movement of activists powered by social media. The Crips Against Cuts (CAC) collective […]

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