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Rail platform safety risks set to continue for seven more years, despite inquest findings

By John Pring on 5th May 2022 Category: Transport

Rail platform safety risks set to continue for seven more years, despite inquest findings
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The government has refused to promise to accelerate the long-delayed installation of tactile paving on railway platforms across the country, despite an inquest finding that the lack of safety markings played a part in a disabled man’s death. The government has […]

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal

By John Pring on 4th November 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Justice for Jodey fight continues with fresh request for appeal
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to make a second attempt to secure permission to appeal against a high court ruling. Joy Dove is fighting to secure a second […]

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Mother of Jodey Whiting fights on for justice with appeal bid
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The mother of a disabled woman who took her own life after her benefits were wrongly stopped is to seek permission to appeal against a court’s ruling that there should not be a second inquest into her daughter’s death. Joy Dove […]

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence

By John Pring on 23rd September 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judges reject claim that systemic DWP failings led to death, despite years of evidence
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Three judges have rejected a mother’s bid to secure a second inquest into the death of her disabled daughter – who killed herself after her benefits were wrongly stopped – despite one of the judges criticising the “shocking” failures in the […]

Judge’s ‘astounding’ attack on Coffey’s ‘wholly unsatisfactory’ behaviour

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Judge’s ‘astounding’ attack on Coffey’s ‘wholly unsatisfactory’ behaviour
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A high court judge has accused work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey of “wholly unsatisfactory” behaviour and lacking respect for the mother of a benefit claimant whose death was linked to failures by her department. Mr Justice Morris spoke out about […]

Disabled student wins right to challenge DWP over universal credit ‘discrimination’

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Education

Disabled student wins right to challenge DWP over universal credit ‘discrimination’
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A disabled student has won the right to challenge efforts by ministers to prevent him and thousands of others in his situation from claiming universal credit while they are studying. Flinn Kays argues that many disabled students should be entitled to […]

DWP lied about duty to keep benefit claimants safe, document suggests

By John Pring on 20th May 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP lied about duty to keep benefit claimants safe, document suggests
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) lied when it claimed that it had no “duty of care” to protect disabled benefit claimants, new evidence suggests. Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has repeatedly told MPs that her department does not […]

Families of DWP victims want chance to confront ministers over benefit deaths

By John Pring on 13th May 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Families of DWP victims want chance to confront ministers over benefit deaths
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The families of two disabled people whose deaths were caused by Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings say they want the chance to confront ministers in parliament, so they can describe to them the damage their actions have caused. The […]

Government backs down over inaccessible shielding letters, hours before court case

By John Pring on 25th March 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government backs down over inaccessible shielding letters, hours before court case
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The government has been forced to make a series of promises aimed at improving the accessibility of the way it communicates with those shielding from coronavirus. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made the concessions hours before it was […]

Hancock faces court action over accessible shielding information

By John Pring on 4th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Hancock faces court action over accessible shielding information
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The high court is set to hear a disabled woman’s claim that the government breached equality and human rights laws by failing to provide her with accessible shielding information during the pandemic. Sarah Leadbetter, from Narborough, Leicestershire, who is blind and […]

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