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Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people

By John Pring on 1st June 2017 Category: Human Rights

Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people
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Labour has promised that it will take a “rights-based approach” to protecting the interests of disabled people, if it wins power at next week’s general election. At the centre of that approach will be incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights […]

Election 2017: Elected office access fund closure was ‘undemocratic tragedy’

By John Pring on 25th May 2017 Category: Politics

Election 2017: Elected office access fund closure was ‘undemocratic tragedy’
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Disabled politicians seeking to become MPs say the government’s decision to stop providing funding to help with their extra campaigning costs has made it harder for them to be successful in next month’s general election. They have told Disability News Service […]

Election 2017: Labour’s rights pledges suggest vindication for Abrahams

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Politics

Election 2017: Labour’s rights pledges suggest vindication for Abrahams
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Labour’s general election manifesto includes a string of policies aimed at improving the rights of disabled people, including a commitment to incorporate the UN disability convention into UK law for the first time. The manifesto appears to be a vindication of […]

Snap election puts co-production of Labour social security policies at risk

By John Pring on 4th May 2017 Category: Politics

Snap election puts co-production of Labour social security policies at risk
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Labour has refused to say what impact the snap election will have on its lengthy efforts to ensure that disabled people’s views are at the heart of its new social security policies. Although it says the results of its Disability Equality […]

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote

By John Pring on 30th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Shabby’ Labour fails again on disability rights, after abstaining on PIP cuts vote
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The Labour party has been heavily criticised for again failing to defend disabled people from attacks on their rights, after its peers refused to vote against “discriminatory” cuts to the government’s new disability benefit. The House of Lords voted on Monday […]

New Labour shadow reveals PMQs access nightmare… and ‘social model’ ignorance

By John Pring on 23rd March 2017 Category: Politics

New Labour shadow reveals PMQs access nightmare… and ‘social model’ ignorance
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Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people has spoken about her new role, and the access problems she faces as a disabled MP during prime minister’s questions. Marie Rimmer, one of parliament’s few disabled MPs, was appointed to the role on […]

PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’

By John Pring on 9th March 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP cuts ‘will be debated and voted on’
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Calls for government cuts to disability benefits to be reversed are likely to be debated separately – and voted on – by both Houses of Parliament later this month. The amendments to personal independence payment (PIP) regulations were announced last month […]

Council boss in Capita care cuts storm admits one in five had support reduced

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Independent Living

Council boss in Capita care cuts storm admits one in five had support reduced
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A council leader has admitted that one in five of the disabled people whose care packages were reassessed by the discredited outsourcing company Capita have had their support cut. Simon Letts, the Labour leader of Southampton City Council (SCC), also admitted […]

PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’

By John Pring on 26th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’
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Labour, the Green party and the Liberal Democrats have called for the government to act on claims of widespread dishonesty by the medical professionals paid to compile benefits assessment reports, following a two-month investigation by Disability News Service (DNS). The three […]

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 5th January 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Three opposition parties have called for an independent inquiry into claims that ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their “fitness for work” test. The apparent cover-up was […]

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