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Human Rights

May 11, 2017

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General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of “hypocrisy” after it promised to end the “burning injustices” facing mental health service-users. Both groups pointed out that Conservative social security policies, including the coercion and bullying of benefit claimants, had created and worsened mental distress. And they said the party had been responsible for

Activism and Campaigning

Marie Rimmer talks to Roy Bard, surrounded by police officers, cameras and protesters

March 9, 2017

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Activists bring ‘no more benefit deaths’ message to Westminster

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Disabled activists have explained why they took to the streets around parliament to protest at the government’s latest cuts to disability benefits. The protest, organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and the Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN), brought traffic to a standstill outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, a day before the

Benefits and Poverty

Damian Green giving evidence to MSPs, while someone behind him wears a tee shirt promoting the film I, Daniel Blake

March 2, 2017

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Billions of pounds of PIP cuts ‘will put lives at risk’

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The announcement of billions of pounds of cuts to the government’s new disability benefit is a discriminatory attack on people with mental health problems, will push many of them further into poverty and isolation, and will put lives at risk, say disabled activists. Protests about the cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) have already

Benefits and Poverty

A sign pointing to Parliament Street and Whitehall

February 16, 2017

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Questions over DWP’s further medical evidence pilot secrecy

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing questions over why it failed to release the results of a pilot project that was supposed to correct a fatal flaw in its “fitness for work” test. DWP had promised a judge that the pilot project would test ways of making the work capability assessment

Activism and Campaigning

Robert Dellar on a stage, reading from a book into a microphone

December 22, 2016

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Activists mourn Robert Dellar, co-founder of Mad Pride and a ‘tenacious force for good’

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Mental health activists are mourning the loss of Robert Dellar, a “tenacious force for good in an uncaring world” and one of the founders of Mad Pride, who died at the weekend. Dellar avoided the media limelight, but had been a driving force behind the user-led campaign, which was set up to celebrate mental

Benefits and Poverty

An MHRN supporter outside the Royal Courts of Justice with a banner that says 'Is there justice or just us?'

October 13, 2016

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Mind faces boycott call after policy and campaigns manager joins DWP

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Disabled activists have called for a boycott of the mental health charity Mind, and called on its chief executive to quit, after one of its managers agreed to spend a year working with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). They say the move by policy and campaigns manager Tom Pollard is just the

Human Rights

May 22, 2015

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New money for ‘places of safety’, but ‘more must be done’ to stop discrimination

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Disabled activists have welcomed government plans to reduce the use of police cells as temporary “places of safety” for people detained under the Mental Health Act but have called for ministers to do more to prevent discrimination. Home secretary Theresa May announced this week that a new police and sentencing bill would include measures

Human Rights

February 28, 2015

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Inquiry finds hundreds died ‘non-natural’ deaths following detention

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Disabled activists have backed the findings of a major inquiry that concluded that serious flaws within the mental health and criminal justice systems were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of service-users in detention. They spoke out after the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its report into the “non-natural” deaths of 367

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