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Dismay over psychiatrists’ failure to speak out on ‘abusive’ universal credit project

By John Pring on 7th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Dismay over psychiatrists’ failure to speak out on ‘abusive’ universal credit project
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Five grassroots groups of disabled people have asked psychiatrists to explain why they have not spoken out publicly about a scheme that allows work coaches to refer universal credit (UC) claimants for mental health treatment. Mental Health Resistance Network, Disabled People […]

Picnics – not work – are a health outcome, say activists

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

Picnics – not work – are a health outcome, say activists
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A new campaign aims to force the government to scrap its insistence that finding a job or returning to work is an important health “outcome” for those with mental distress. The claim that stable employment is “an important outcome for recovery […]

Activist tells mental health conference delegates: ‘You’re helping no-one but yourselves’

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activist tells mental health conference delegates: ‘You’re helping no-one but yourselves’
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Grassroots activists have challenged the government and mental health professionals over their failure to address widespread attacks on their rights. Members of the Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) were outside a conference in central London on Tuesday to protest at the […]

Suicide prevention minister could be ‘legally compromised’ over silence on ESA risk

By John Pring on 25th October 2018 Category: Politics

Suicide prevention minister could be ‘legally compromised’ over silence on ESA risk
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Disabled activists say the new “minister for suicide prevention” could leave herself “legally compromised” by her continuing failure to promise to warn local agencies that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits face a higher risk of taking their own lives. Jackie Doyle-Price […]

Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans

By John Pring on 19th April 2018 Category: Independent Living

Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans
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Government plans for a huge expansion of personal health budgets could help to deliver independent living for disabled people, according to a leading disabled peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell (pictured), who has been receiving a personal health budget herself for more than […]

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Employment

DWP refuses to name charities set to earn millions from new disability jobs scheme
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The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to name the charities and other organisations being paid millions of pounds to help deliver its new disability employment programme across England and Wales. All six of the new Work and Health Programme […]

Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP

By John Pring on 25th January 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP
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Disabled activists have called on the charity Mind to explain how seconding a senior member of staff to work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over the last year has affected mental health service-users. In an open letter to […]

‘Staggering’ ESA suicide figures prompt calls for inquiry and prosecution of ministers

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Staggering’ ESA suicide figures prompt calls for inquiry and prosecution of ministers
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“Staggering” new figures show that the proportion of people claiming the main out-of-work disability benefit who have attempted suicide doubled between 2007 and 2014. The new analysis of NHS statistics, being published for the first time by Disability News Service (DNS), […]

Vigil as court hears that PIP rules are ‘unfair and discriminatory’

By John Pring on 14th December 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Vigil as court hears that PIP rules are ‘unfair and discriminatory’
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Campaigners have taken part in a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice, as the high court was hearing claims by a disabled woman that new benefit rules are “unfair and discriminatory”. Regulations that came into force in March mean that […]

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’

By John Pring on 10th August 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘is using lost benefit assessment letters to cut spending’
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is using lost appointment letters for face-to-face assessments as an excuse for turning down disabled people’s benefit claims, to help it cut spending on social security, it has been claimed. Concerns have been raised […]

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