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DWP figures on total cost of disabled people who cannot work are ‘chilling’ echo of ‘useless eaters’ propaganda

By John Pring on 20th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP figures on total cost of disabled people who cannot work are ‘chilling’ echo of ‘useless eaters’ propaganda
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The decision of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish figures showing the total cost to the economy of disabled people who cannot work has been described as a “chilling” echo of the “useless eaters” propaganda of 1930s Germany. […]

Extra costs evidence from grassroots group provides stark warning to ministers set to cut disability benefits

By John Pring on 6th March 2025 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Extra costs evidence from grassroots group provides stark warning to ministers set to cut disability benefits
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New research from disabled activists has shown the huge variety of ways in which mental health impairments can cause significant extra daily living costs, just as the government appears set to announce fresh cuts to disability benefits. The grassroots, user-led mental […]

New government figures show key policy at heart of disability employment strategy ‘will not work’

By John Pring on 19th December 2024 Category: Employment

New government figures show key policy at heart of disability employment strategy ‘will not work’
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A key treatment that ministers have placed at the heart of their strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the probability of them securing jobs, government figures have shown. Disabled […]

Anger and confusion over Kendall’s comments on sending work coaches into mental health hospitals

By John Pring on 17th October 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Anger and confusion over Kendall’s comments on sending work coaches into mental health hospitals
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Disabled activists have reacted angrily to “horrific” government plans that could see work coaches being sent into mental health hospitals to help push people in severe mental distress off benefits and into work. Liz Kendall made the comments in an interview […]

DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser

By John Pring on 12th September 2024 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP admits ‘shocking’ and ‘negligent’ five-year failure to appoint a chief medical adviser
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it failed to appoint a chief medical adviser for more than five years, at a time when its policy decisions were causing countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants. The department failed […]

Disabled activists pledge ‘no hiding place’ for Labour’s new government

By John Pring on 18th July 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists pledge ‘no hiding place’ for Labour’s new government
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Disabled activists have today “thrown the gauntlet down” to the new Labour government, as more than 100 protesters gathered opposite the House of Commons to call for action to address the damage caused by 14 years of Conservative rule. They demanded […]

Watchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article

By John Pring on 8th June 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Watchdog receives hundreds of complaints over Telegraph’s ‘toxic’ benefits article
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A press watchdog has received hundreds of complaints about a “toxic” article by the Daily Telegraph which asked its readers to calculate how much disabled people on out-of-work benefits were contributing to the country’s “tax burden”. The Telegraph wrote that millions […]

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production
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NHS England has been warned that its actions could “plunge co-production into crisis”, after it went back on a promise to publish a mental health policy that disabled campaigners had been working on for 15 months. Grassroots groups and disabled activists […]

NHS bodies continued ‘unsafe’ mental distress scheme after being told of ‘dodgy’ data

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Human Rights

NHS bodies continued ‘unsafe’ mental distress scheme after being told of ‘dodgy’ data
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Two NHS organisations continued to support a controversial scheme aimed at service-users in severe mental distress, despite being warned by police that dodgy data had been used to persuade other forces and health trusts to adopt the programme. The multi-agency Serenity […]

Rights concerns over major Mental Health Act reforms

By John Pring on 14th January 2021 Category: Human Rights

Rights concerns over major Mental Health Act reforms
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User-led grassroots groups have raised serious concerns about the government’s new mental health white paper, particularly its failure to offer the full human rights set out in the UN disability convention. The white paper, published yesterday (Wednesday), aims to deliver “major […]

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‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’

Four disabled Labour MPs stand up to government over cuts to disability benefits

Silence from MP sister of Rachel Reeves over suicide linked to PIP flaws, just as government was seeking cuts

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Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’

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Disabled MP who quit government over benefit cuts tells DNS: ‘The consequences will be devastating’

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Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims

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