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Ministers break national strategy pledge by asking non-user-led charities to join taskforce

By John Pring on 3rd March 2022 Category: Politics

Ministers break national strategy pledge by asking non-user-led charities to join taskforce
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Ministers have broken a pledge made in their National Disability Strategy to set up a taskforce of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that would help them access more government contracts, by allowing non-user-led charities to join the group. The strategy pledged last […]

Government ‘treats disabled people with contempt’ by handing £2.4 million to charities

By John Pring on 1st April 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government ‘treats disabled people with contempt’ by handing £2.4 million to charities
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The government has been accused of showing “contempt” and “indifference” towards disabled people, after announcing large grants to 13 disability charities but failing to offer a penny to organisations run and controlled by disabled people. The Department of Health and Social […]

Government uses loophole to block inquiry on civil servant sex abuse evidence

By John Pring on 29th October 2020 Category: Crime

Government uses loophole to block inquiry on civil servant sex abuse evidence
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The government has used a freedom of information loophole to hide evidence that would show if a former senior civil servant – later arrested over two unconnected rape allegations – helped block laws that would have protected disabled people from sex […]

Activist’s book takes aim at charities ‘who facilitated war on disabled people’

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activist’s book takes aim at charities ‘who facilitated war on disabled people’
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A new book by a leading disabled activist has accused disability charities of being more interested in their own survival than in defending disabled people from a decade of cuts and oppression. In The War on Disabled People*, published next week, […]

Charities ignore Justice for Jodey evidence

By John Pring on 1st August 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Charities ignore Justice for Jodey evidence
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A dozen disability charities have refused to back demands for an inquiry into links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the deaths of benefit claimants, despite being reminded of the years of evidence behind those calls. The 12 […]

Local Mencap charity boss shared racist posts on social media

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Human Rights

Local Mencap charity boss shared racist posts on social media
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The boss of a local Mencap charity has admitted repeatedly sharing racist messages from far-right organisations including the BNP and Britain First on social media. Patricia Chadwick has been sharing far-right messages on her Facebook page since at least 2015, alongside […]

PA employers are facing probes into ‘sleep-in’ minimum wage back-pay

By John Pring on 27th July 2017 Category: Independent Living

PA employers are facing probes into ‘sleep-in’ minimum wage back-pay
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Disabled people who employ personal assistants (PAs) are being investigated by the government for failing to pay their PAs the minimum wage during overnight “sleep-in” shifts. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has admitted to Disability News Service (DNS) that individual PA […]

Mencap care staff ‘called resident “poison dwarf” and reused feeding syringes’

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Independent Living

Mencap care staff ‘called resident “poison dwarf” and reused feeding syringes’
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The disability charity Mencap is facing allegations that staff at one of its care homes used an offensive nickname for a disabled resident, and repeatedly reused feeding syringes that should have been thrown away after just one day. A whistleblower, A*, […]

Big disability charities ‘are selling out disabled people’ by seeking DWP contracts

By John Pring on 8th December 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Big disability charities ‘are selling out disabled people’ by seeking DWP contracts
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The country’s largest disability charities have been accused of “selling out” disabled people, as they look set to play a significant role in providing back-to-work services under the government’s new Work and Health Programme. Disability News Service (DNS) has contacted seven […]

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