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Universal credit leaves claimants with mental health problems ‘tangled in bureaucracy’

By John Pring on 12th July 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Universal credit leaves claimants with mental health problems ‘tangled in bureaucracy’
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People with mental health problems are becoming “tangled up” in the bureaucracy and flaws of the government’s new universal credit benefit system, a committee of MPs have heard. Members of the public accounts committee heard this week that claimants were facing […]

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

By John Pring on 3rd May 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
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A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is facing closure next month if it cannot secure new funding, after becoming the latest victim of competition from large, non-user-led charities and private sector organisations. The threat to the future […]

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 […]

Disability-related honours handed to special school heads and service-providers

By John Pring on 22nd June 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disability-related honours handed to special school heads and service-providers
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The Cabinet Office has defended the diversity of the UK honours system, despite the latest disability-related recipients being dominated by special school teachers and other professionals recognised for providing services to disabled people. The Queen’s birthday honours list, announced this week, […]

Fresh anger over Mind’s government links as Farmer heads new review

By John Pring on 12th January 2017 Category: Employment

Fresh anger over Mind’s government links as Farmer heads new review
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The appointment of Mind’s chief executive to head an employment review for the prime minister has raised fresh concerns among disabled activists about the mental health charity’s closeness to the government. Prime minister Theresa May announced this week that Paul Farmer […]

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

By John Pring on 22nd December 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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 […]

Mind boss lies to protesters over DWP contracts

By John Pring on 3rd November 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Mind boss lies to protesters over DWP contracts
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Mind’s chief executive has lied to service-users and other disabled activists who were protesting about his charity’s close links with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Disabled activists who gathered outside Mind’s headquarters on Monday declared “war” on the charity […]

Mind faces boycott call after policy and campaigns manager joins DWP

By John Pring on 13th October 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’

By John Pring on 3rd July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers ‘considering scrapping WRAG top-up’
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Ministers are considering plans to slash benefit payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, by scrapping a key part of the main out-of-work disability benefit, employment and support allowance (ESA), according to the BBC. The BBC reports that a leaked […]

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