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Cost-of-living debate sparked by petitions ‘provides campaigning momentum’

By John Pring on 25th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Cost-of-living debate sparked by petitions ‘provides campaigning momentum’
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Government support for disabled people in dealing with the extra costs they face has “barely scratched the surface” of their needs, a disabled MP has told a House of Commons debate. Labour’s Marsha de Cordova told fellow MPs on Monday that […]

Work coaches with no GCSEs could decide on ‘fit for work activity’, DWP admits

By John Pring on 4th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Work coaches with no GCSEs could decide on ‘fit for work activity’, DWP admits
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Job coaches with no academic qualifications could be making life-changing – and potentially life-ending – decisions on whether a disabled person must carry out work-related activity, if the government goes ahead with its plans to scrap the “fitness for work” test. […]

Guarded welcome for new prepayment meter rules

By John Pring on 20th April 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Guarded welcome for new prepayment meter rules
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Disabled campaigners have given a guarded welcome to new rules that should stop energy companies forcibly installing prepayment meters in the homes of many disabled people. Ofgem said all energy suppliers had agreed a new code of practice which aims to […]

Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose
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Six disability campaigners have delivered scathing criticism of the government’s controversial new disability benefits reforms, in evidence to a committee of MPs. The representatives of three disabled people’s organisations and two disability charities joined a Conservative disabled peer in delivering an […]

Disabled Tory peer tells MPs: DWP is ‘stuck in a time warp’

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Politics

Disabled Tory peer tells MPs: DWP is ‘stuck in a time warp’
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A disabled Conservative peer has told MPs that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “stuck in a time warp” and has a “culture of low aspiration”. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin (pictured) said he believed DWP treated disabled people “as maybe […]

Frustration over review’s failure to call Met police ‘institutionally disablist’

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Crime

Frustration over review’s failure to call Met police ‘institutionally disablist’
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Disabled campaigners have criticised a review of standards in the Metropolitan police for failing to conclude that the force is institutionally disablist, and then refusing to explain that decision. Baroness Casey’s review of the force’s culture and standards found one in […]

Disability discrimination in Met police is ‘baked into the system’, says report

By John Pring on 23rd March 2023 Category: Employment

Disability discrimination in Met police is ‘baked into the system’, says report
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Discrimination faced by disabled staff within the Metropolitan police has become “baked into the system”, a review of the force’s culture and standards has found. But despite multiple findings of disability discrimination, the report by the crossbench peer Baroness [Louise] Casey […]

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Councils ‘must turn their backs on policies that threaten right to independent living’
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Campaigners have called on local authorities to turn their backs on policies that force disabled people into residential homes against their will and therefore “seriously threaten the right to independent living”. The calls came after it emerged that Bristol City Council […]

Judge’s prepayment meters order welcomed, but ‘ministers must go further’

By John Pring on 9th February 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Judge’s prepayment meters order welcomed, but ‘ministers must go further’
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Disabled campaigners have welcomed a judge’s order that should put a temporary stop to energy companies using the courts to force customers onto prepayment meters, but they have called on the government to go further and introduce a permanent ban. Lord […]

Report on draft mental health bill by peers and MPs ‘is seriously flawed’

By John Pring on 19th January 2023 Category: Human Rights

Report on draft mental health bill by peers and MPs ‘is seriously flawed’
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A report by a cross-party committee of MPs and peers on the government’s plans for mental health reform has been described as “seriously flawed and discriminatory” by a user-led organisation. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) told the committee last year that the […]

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