Peter Beresford

June 9, 2016

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Report finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress

Most mental health service-users are still deeply divided about identifying with the social model of disability, but still favour moving away from the medicalised attitude of professionals and towards a more “social” approach, according to a new report. The user-led research aimed to investigate how a more “social” approach to thinking about mental distress

Activism and Campaigning

March 4, 2016

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DPOs ‘hold the key to a welfare state fightback’

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User-led and disabled people’s organisations hold the key to fighting back against the government’s long-term assault on the welfare state, according to a leading disabled academic. In his new book, All Our Welfare: Towards Participatory Social Policy, Professor Peter Beresford argues that service-user and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) “offer a force for achieving change”

Activism and Campaigning

November 6, 2015

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Ministers finally admit – almost – that they COULD assess overall cuts impact

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The government appears to have finally admitted that it could carry out an assessment of the overall impact of its cuts and reforms on disabled people… if it had the right “tools”. Ministers have consistently denied – despite evidence from their own social security and equality advisers, and independent experts – that it is

Politics

September 25, 2015

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DWP exposes IDS ‘lies’ about success of Disability Confident campaign

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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of lying to his own party conference about the success of his campaign to encourage employers to be more “disability confident”. Duncan Smith (pictured) told last year’s conference in Birmingham that more than 1, 000 employers had “signed up” to the Disability Confident campaign, which

Benefits and Poverty

July 10, 2015

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Budget: Chancellor’s WRAG decision is ‘misguided’ and ‘cruel’

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Disabled people and their organisations have branded this week’s budget misguided and cruel, and say it will drag many more disabled people into poverty. Their chief target was the chancellor’s decision to remove – from April 2017 – the extra financial support given to new claimants in the work-related activity group (WRAG) of employment

Browsing: Peter Beresford

Report finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress

DPOs ‘hold the key to a welfare state fightback’

Ministers finally admit – almost – that they COULD assess overall cuts impact

DWP exposes IDS ‘lies’ about success of Disability Confident campaign

Budget: Chancellor’s WRAG decision is ‘misguided’ and ‘cruel’

Social care must be seen as an ‘economic generator’