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Citizens Advice signed ‘gagging clause’ in exchange for £21 million from DWP

By John Pring on 9th February 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Citizens Advice signed ‘gagging clause’ in exchange for £21 million from DWP
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A national advice charity signed a £21 million contract which included a “gagging clause” that prevented it bringing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “unfairly” into “disrepute”, an official document has finally confirmed. Citizens Advice signed the Help to Claim […]

Citizens Advice silent over DWP gagging clause in £21 million agreement

By John Pring on 3rd March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Citizens Advice silent over DWP gagging clause in £21 million agreement
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Two national advice charities have refused to say if agreements they signed with the government to provide support to universal credit claimants contain gagging clauses that might prevent them publicly criticising the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). DWP announced in […]

Regulator fails to record key details from scheme sending COVID patients into care homes

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Independent Living

Regulator fails to record key details from scheme sending COVID patients into care homes
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The care regulator has admitted failing to track vital details about scores of care homes that are being allowed to accept patients infected with COVID-19, while older and disabled people not yet infected occupy other parts of the same buildings. The […]

Burnham hides from scrutiny over ‘abhorrent’ COVID care home policy

By John Pring on 5th November 2020 Category: Politics

Burnham hides from scrutiny over ‘abhorrent’ COVID care home policy
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Staff working for Greater Manchester’s mayor have repeatedly refused to say if he backs government plans that will see hospital patients with coronavirus discharged into care homes, even though he suggested to his own disabled advisers that he did not. Andy […]

Labour waters down criticism of government by its own shadow disability minister

By John Pring on 15th October 2020 Category: Politics

Labour waters down criticism of government by its own shadow disability minister
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Powerful criticism of the government’s performance on COVID-19 and disability employment by Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people was significantly watered down by her own party, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. An email mistakenly sent to DNS yesterday (Wednesday) by […]

Concerns grow over police force that shares info on protesters with DWP

By John Pring on 5th September 2019 Category: Human Rights

Concerns grow over police force that shares info on protesters with DWP
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Grave concerns have been raised about what appear to be “discriminatory” and “pernicious” actions by a police force that has admitted passing information about disabled protesters to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Campaigners, including the human rights organisation Liberty, […]

Citizens Advice signed gagging clause in return for share of £51m from DWP

By John Pring on 15th August 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Citizens Advice signed gagging clause in return for share of £51m from DWP
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Two charities that will receive £51 million in government funding to provide advice and support to claimants of universal credit (UC) signed gagging clauses that prevent them bringing the Department for Work and Pensions “unfairly” into “disrepute”. Both Citizens Advice (CA) […]

‘Anger and collective action’ secure ‘success’ for Peterloo access campaign

By John Pring on 15th August 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Anger and collective action’ secure ‘success’ for Peterloo access campaign
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A grassroots campaign that “harnessed the anger, determination and collective action” of disabled people in Manchester has secured a council promise to ensure a new memorial to the victims of the Peterloo massacre is made “fully accessible”. The council-funded memorial is […]

Inaccessible Peterloo massacre memorial causes protest storm

By John Pring on 30th May 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Inaccessible Peterloo massacre memorial causes protest storm
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Disabled activists have criticised a council for pushing ahead with “discriminatory” plans for a memorial to victims of the Peterloo massacre – who died 200 years ago in the cause of equality – that will be completely inaccessible to many disabled […]

Protest planned over rail company’s ‘terrible step backwards’ on access

By John Pring on 7th June 2018 Category: Transport

Protest planned over rail company’s ‘terrible step backwards’ on access
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Disabled activists are preparing a protest action over a train operator’s plans to run mainline rail services that wheelchair-users will not be able to access. Disability News Service revealed last week that TransPennine Express (TPE) is to introduce two extra trains, […]

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