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Government cuts ‘could see disabled people slide back to the bad old days’

By John Pring on 5th June 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government cuts ‘could see disabled people slide back to the bad old days’
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Government policies on social care, health and benefits risk sending disabled people sliding back to “the bad old days of dependency, isolation and poverty”, a disabled peer has warned. In a Lords debate on the Queen’s speech, Baroness [Jane] Campbell urged […]

ELECTION 2015: Coalition has led to in-work ‘discrimination, harassment and hardship’

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ELECTION 2015: Coalition has led to in-work ‘discrimination, harassment and hardship’
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Disabled workers have faced deteriorating attitudes from employers, cuts to their legal protection, and “disintegrating” long-term job prospects under the last four years of the coalition government, according to new research. The study by the Public Interest Research Unit (PIRU), a […]

ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos
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Labour’s launch of its disability manifesto has descended into chaos after major disagreements between a shadow minister and a leading disabled election candidate over how far it would go in government to address disability poverty. The mini-manifesto appears to offer few […]

Election 2015: Tories dodge election hustings on disability

By John Pring on 10th April 2015 Category: Politics

Election 2015: Tories dodge election hustings on disability
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The Conservative party is refusing to defend its record in government on disability issues, after declining invitations to take part in three national, disability-related election hustings. While the Tories’ coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, have put up leading politicians to defend […]

Election 2015: ‘Jury’ backs Greens, as Tories ignore invite

By John Pring on 3rd April 2015 Category: Politics

Election 2015: ‘Jury’ backs Greens, as Tories ignore invite
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The Green party has come out ahead of Labour and the Liberal Democrats after one of the first disability-related hustings of the general election campaign. There were also some early hints of disability-related policies that are likely to be included in […]

Anger after Reeves tells benefit claimants: ‘Labour is not for you’

By John Pring on 20th March 2015 Category: Politics

Anger after Reeves tells benefit claimants: ‘Labour is not for you’
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Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has caused outrage among disabled activists after declaring in an interview that Labour was “not the party of people on benefits”. In an interview in the Guardian, Reeves said: “We don’t want to be […]

Report finds evidence to back ‘real world’ alternative to ‘toxic’ WCA

By John Pring on 20th March 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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A new report has called for the “toxic” work capability assessment (WCA) to be scrapped and replaced with something that paints a more realistic picture of the barriers disabled people face in society. The Rethinking the Work Capability Assessment report, by […]

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