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Jodey Whiting: Mum to demand truth from DWP in face-to-face meeting

By John Pring on 6th June 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Jodey Whiting: Mum to demand truth from DWP in face-to-face meeting
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after repeated safeguarding failings by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to demand the truth about her daughter’s death in a meeting with a senior civil servant. Emma […]

Second newspaper group could be targeted over universal credit articles

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Second newspaper group could be targeted over universal credit articles
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A second national newspaper group is facing a boycott and possible direct action protests over a Department for Work and Pensions campaign that aims to improve the reputation of its “toxic” universal credit benefit system. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is […]

DWP ‘hypocrite’ ministers refuse to be held to same safety standards as social media

By John Pring on 11th April 2019 Category: Politics

DWP ‘hypocrite’ ministers refuse to be held to same safety standards as social media
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Ministers have been branded “hypocrites” for rejecting the idea that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should be held responsible for benefit-related deaths, despite their government calling for social media managers to be held criminally responsible for safeguarding failures. Home […]

Cross-government suicide prevention plan ignores DWP

By John Pring on 31st January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Cross-government suicide prevention plan ignores DWP
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Ministers have failed to include the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in a new cross-government plan aimed at reducing suicides, despite years of evidence linking such deaths with the disability benefits system and social security reforms. The Department of Health […]

Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments

By John Pring on 24th January 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Lobby aims to persuade MPs that DWP must First Do No Harm on assessments
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Disabled activists are hoping to use a parliamentary meeting next month to persuade more MPs that action must be taken to prevent further deaths caused by the government’s much-criticised fitness for work test. The First Do No Harm lobby on 13 […]

COMMENT: Nine years of breaking important stories. Now DNS needs your help

By John Pring on 9th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

COMMENT: Nine years of breaking important stories. Now DNS needs your help
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Over the last nine or so years, Disability News Service has broken scores of important stories. Many have been about the austerity-related assault on disability benefits and other support and services. Others have covered the continuing journey towards the realisation of […]

DWP ‘has no record’ of whether it showed WCA death documents to reviewer

By John Pring on 31st May 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘has no record’ of whether it showed WCA death documents to reviewer
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims it has no record of whether it showed vital documents linking its “fitness for work” test with the deaths of benefit claimants to the expert it hired to review the assessment. Even though […]

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Department of Health silence over failure to highlight ESA suicide risk
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The Department of Health (DH) has refused to say why it failed to warn NHS bodies and other local services that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits are at a hugely-increased risk of attempting to take their own lives. DH published the […]

Improving Lives: Fears over strategy’s ‘unacceptable’ work and health links

By John Pring on 7th December 2017 Category: Employment

Improving Lives: Fears over strategy’s ‘unacceptable’ work and health links
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The government’s “cruel” and “unacceptable” emphasis on linking health and job outcomes in its new work, health and disability strategy will have a significant negative impact on people in mental distress, say campaigners and experts. The Department for Work and Pensions […]

COMMENT: If you value disabled people’s rights, and plan to vote Tory on Thursday, please read this…

By John Pring on 4th June 2017 Category: Human Rights

COMMENT: If you value disabled people’s rights, and plan to vote Tory on Thursday, please read this…
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Penny Mordaunt, the minister for disabled people, told last week’s disability hustings event in London that no group experienced as much discrimination – including at the hands of the state – as disabled people. So what has her government done to […]

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