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News round-up: Restraint, mental health, early deaths, poverty, and PIP back-payments

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Education

News round-up: Restraint, mental health, early deaths, poverty, and PIP back-payments
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The human rights watchdog has launched an inquiry into how schools are monitoring the use of restraint on their pupils. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) inquiry will discover whether primary, secondary and special schools in England and Wales are […]

UK ‘one of worst in European Union on disability poverty’

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

UK ‘one of worst in European Union on disability poverty’
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The UK is one of the worst-performing countries in the European Union (EU) when it comes to protecting disabled people from poverty, according to official figures. The EU figures show that the UK is the 10th worst of the 28 EU […]

Election 2019: ‘Tories forced a million members of disabled families into poverty’

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Election 2019: ‘Tories forced a million members of disabled families into poverty’
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Labour has accused successive Tory-led governments of forcing a million more people in families with disabled members into poverty over the last decade. In a new report, Labour highlights 10 areas in which successive Tory-led governments have failed on poverty as […]

Number of disabled people in poverty rose by 200,000 in one year… says DWP

By John Pring on 4th April 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Number of disabled people in poverty rose by 200,000 in one year… says DWP
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The number of disabled people living in poverty has risen by 200,000 in just one year, government figures have revealed. The new figures [summary results, tables 7a and 7b], published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), show levels of […]

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate
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The minister for disabled people has been forced to apologise to MPs after Disability News Service (DNS) caught her misleading MPs about support for disabled people for the fourth time in less than a year. The misleading comments by Sarah Newton […]

‘Chaotic’ universal credit led to disabled man’s death, sister tells UN poverty expert

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

‘Chaotic’ universal credit led to disabled man’s death, sister tells UN poverty expert
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A UN expert has heard how a man with learning difficulties died a month after attempting to take his own life, following a move onto the government’s “chaotic” universal credit benefit system that left him hundreds of pounds in debt. An […]

Sharp rise in disability poverty in Wales is ‘very concerning’

By John Pring on 15th March 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Sharp rise in disability poverty in Wales is ‘very concerning’
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The proportion of disabled people who live in poverty in Wales has risen by more than 40 per cent since 2010, according to “very concerning” new research. Figures produced by Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) show that the percentage of working-age disabled […]

Charity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap

By John Pring on 11th August 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Charity calls for WRAG exemption from benefits cap
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A leading user-led charity has called for more disabled people to be exempt from the cap on working-age benefits, after the publication of new government figures. Disability Rights UK (DR UK) spoke out after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) […]

Tory conference: Anger over IDS ‘work your way out of poverty’ call

By John Pring on 9th October 2015 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Anger over IDS ‘work your way out of poverty’ call
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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of insulting disabled people by telling them to “work your way out of poverty”. His speech to the Conservative conference was short on policy detail but heavy with rhetoric, including a […]

Disability poverty rose sharply in fourth year of coalition

By John Pring on 3rd July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability poverty rose sharply in fourth year of coalition
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The proportion of disabled people living in poverty rose sharply in the fourth year of the coalition government, according to official figures. Disabled campaigners say the rise was an inevitable consequence of a string of cuts to disabled people’s support under […]

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