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Mind faces discrimination claims after internal probe calls for multiple improvements on equality

By John Pring on 15th May 2025 Category: Employment

Mind faces discrimination claims after internal probe calls for multiple improvements on equality
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A disabled woman has accused Mind of discrimination after an internal investigation recommended that the mental health charity make multiple improvements to how it treats staff protected by the Equality Act. Kuziva Punungwe-Mutandiro has spoken to Disability News Service (DNS) after […]

Tory MP brands plan to scrap WCA and allow work coaches to decide fitness for work ‘a crazy idea’

By John Pring on 18th April 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Tory MP brands plan to scrap WCA and allow work coaches to decide fitness for work ‘a crazy idea’
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A Conservative MP has branded government plans to scrap the work capability assessment (WCA) and hand jobcentre work coaches responsibility for deciding if someone is fit for work “a crazy idea”. Nigel Mills (pictured) made the comments as the Commons work […]

‘Deep concern’ over funding for national plan to limit mental health policing

By John Pring on 27th July 2023 Category: Crime

‘Deep concern’ over funding for national plan to limit mental health policing
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A new national agreement that will limit how often police respond to incidents involving people in mental health crisis has caused “deep concern” because of the lack of funding to support the changes, according to a user-led organisation. The national agreement […]

Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Six disability campaigners tell MPs: Government’s benefit reforms are not fit for purpose
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Six disability campaigners have delivered scathing criticism of the government’s controversial new disability benefits reforms, in evidence to a committee of MPs. The representatives of three disabled people’s organisations and two disability charities joined a Conservative disabled peer in delivering an […]

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue

By John Pring on 18th March 2021 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Pandemic backlog means PIP claimants could lose support while waiting in queue
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Claimants of disability benefits who successfully overturned decisions at tribunal are being told their support could be cut off, because of a shortage of assessment professionals and a backlog of claims caused by the pandemic. Claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) […]

Disabled women reveal sexual harassment by high-profile ‘mental health advocate’

By John Pring on 11th June 2020 Category: Crime

Disabled women reveal sexual harassment by high-profile ‘mental health advocate’
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At least 20 women with mental health conditions have been sent unsolicited sexual photographs by a musician and high-profile “mental health advocate”, evidence collected by Disability News Service (DNS) suggests. DNS has heard this week from three women with mental distress […]

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, […]

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Minister says stopping benefit sanctions would do disabled people ‘a great disservice’
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A minister has suggested that the government would be doing a “great disservice” to disabled people if it stopped sanctioning their out-of-work benefits. The comment by Alok Sharma, the employment minister, came in correspondence with the Commons work and pensions committee […]

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

McVey’s universal credit refusal could see hundreds of thousands lose all income
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The failure of ministers to make a key change to the way the government will move existing benefit claimants onto universal credit could see hundreds of thousands of disabled people left without any income at all, campaigners fear. Work and pensions […]

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit migration is set for disaster, warns Lloyd

By John Pring on 20th September 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Lib Dem conference: Universal credit migration is set for disaster, warns Lloyd
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The impact of the “migration” of hundreds of thousands of disabled people onto universal credit from next year could prove disastrous because of the “hoops” the government will force claimants to leap through, according to a disabled MP. Stephen Lloyd, work […]

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