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Title of assisted suicide bill is ‘misleading’ and ‘argumentative’, say disabled campaigners

By John Pring on 31st October 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Title of assisted suicide bill is ‘misleading’ and ‘argumentative’, say disabled campaigners
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A disabled people’s organisation has called on MPs to try to change the “misleading” and “argumentative” title of a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s terminally ill adults (end of life) bill is set to be […]

Disabled activists raise serious concerns over ‘toxic’ assisted suicide plans

By John Pring on 10th October 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists raise serious concerns over ‘toxic’ assisted suicide plans
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Disabled activists have raised serious concerns about “toxic” and “outrageously cruel” plans to bring forward a bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater announced that she would soon be introducing a bill to the House […]

Anger over lockdown comments of former minister for disabled people

By John Pring on 6th October 2022 Category: Politics

Anger over lockdown comments of former minister for disabled people
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Former minister for disabled people Esther McVey has angered campaigners after an “ill-informed and offensive” demand that the government must never order another lockdown, despite the measure probably saving tens of thousands of disabled people’s lives during the pandemic. McVey, who […]

Government ‘may have breached Equality Act duties’ over Lying-in-State queue

By John Pring on 15th September 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government ‘may have breached Equality Act duties’ over Lying-in-State queue
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have criticised the measures taken to ensure that the Queen’s Lying-in-State is accessible to disabled people as “inadequate” and “disappointing”. The government has arranged an “accessible queueing scheme” for those unable to stand in a queue for […]

DPO gives stark warning to disabled people about Covid pandemic

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Independent Living

DPO gives stark warning to disabled people about Covid pandemic
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A disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) has delivered a stark warning about the continuing seriousness of the Covid pandemic, and its impact on disabled people and DPOs. Buckinghamshire Disability Service (BuDS) has been working to inform disabled people in Buckinghamshire and wider […]

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will each miss out on £650 in crucial support, because of the government’s failure to target new cost-of-living funding at some of the groups most in need, disabled campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations said […]

Coronavirus round-up: Supercharged inequalities, shielding, and wellbeing concerns

By John Pring on 30th April 2020 Category: Independent Living

Coronavirus round-up: Supercharged inequalities, shielding, and wellbeing concerns
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The coronavirus pandemic is “supercharging” the inequalities already faced by disabled people, according to new research by a user-led organisation. Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) has heard from thousands of disabled people over the last month through a survey designed to discover […]

Judge’s PIP comments suggest thousands have had claims wrongly stopped

By John Pring on 23rd January 2020 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judge’s PIP comments suggest thousands have had claims wrongly stopped
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Thousands of disabled people could have had their benefit claims stopped unlawfully, campaigners believe, after a judge found that letters sent out by government contractors were failing to stress the serious consequences of failing to attend a face-to-face assessment. Upper tribunal […]

‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews

By John Pring on 8th February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Muddle’ and ‘confusion’ over DWP’s 1.6 million PIP reviews
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “muddle” and “confusion” by refusing to clarify which disabled people will have their claims re-examined through its mammoth programme of disability benefit reviews. Sarah Newton, the minister for disabled people, announced last […]

Allowing DWP barristers to sit as benefits appeal judges ‘is unquestionably wrong’

By John Pring on 23rd February 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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A system that allows barristers who are paid by DWP to prosecute benefit fraud cases to also sit as judges on tribunals that decide social security appeals is “unquestionably wrong” and a “direct conflict of interest”, say welfare rights experts. The […]

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Disabled peers plan to ‘amend, amend, amend, amend, amend’ after assisted dying bill reaches Lords

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