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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 carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service

By John Pring on 17th April 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

DWP carries out threat to ban questions from Disability News Service
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out its threat to stop answering any questions from the country’s only disability news agency. DWP’s chief press officer (disability) had previously warned that he and his staff would stop dealing with […]

Information watchdog to probe DWP’s secret reviews on benefit deaths

By John Pring on 17th April 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Information watchdog to probe DWP’s secret reviews on benefit deaths
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The information watchdog is to investigate the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its refusal to publish secret reviews into 49 benefit-related deaths. The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched the investigation into DWP’s failure to provide information requested by Disability […]

COMMENT: DWP’s threat to DNS

By John Pring on 31st March 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

COMMENT: DWP’s threat to DNS
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By John Pring, editor of Disability News Service It is fair to say that the Department for Work and Pensions is not disabled people’s favourite government department, but it is the one that Disability News Service (DNS) deals with most often. […]

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