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DWP white paper offers mix of ‘human catastrophe’ and overdue reforms

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP white paper offers mix of ‘human catastrophe’ and overdue reforms
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Nearly four years after announcing plans to reform support for disabled people, work and pensions ministers have published proposals for sweeping changes to disability benefits and employment support. Some of the proposals – including plans to scrap the work capability assessment […]

Labour-linked inquiry set to rule out scrapping care charges

By John Pring on 9th March 2023 Category: Independent Living

Labour-linked inquiry set to rule out scrapping care charges
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An inquiry that will have significant influence on Labour’s policy on independent living at the next general election is set to rule out scrapping care charges, according to a document leaked to Disability News Service. The document, a summary of a […]

Minister ridiculed over ‘global leadership on disability inclusion’ claim

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Human Rights

Minister ridiculed over ‘global leadership on disability inclusion’ claim
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The new minister for disabled people has been ridiculed for claiming the government has a record of providing “global leadership on disability inclusion”, six years after it was found guilty of “grave” and “systematic” violations of the UN disability convention. Tom […]

Universal credit: ‘Chaos, fear and preventable deaths’

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Universal credit: ‘Chaos, fear and preventable deaths’
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Disabled activists who have spent years raising concerns about universal credit have warned of its cruelty and how the system “hounds” claimants into complying with strict rules. They spoke out this week as Disability News Service (DNS) reveals how a disabled […]

Concern after DWP admits it has not signed benefit deaths legal agreement

By John Pring on 10th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Concern after DWP admits it has not signed benefit deaths legal agreement
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The equality watchdog has been told to take “urgent” action over its failure to persuade the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to sign a legally-binding agreement that would force it to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The Equality […]

Campaigners dismiss Labour’s claim of co-production on social care review

By John Pring on 13th October 2022 Category: Independent Living

Campaigners dismiss Labour’s claim of co-production on social care review
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Disabled campaigners have dismissed Labour’s claim that a review of its adult social care policy is being co-produced with disabled people. Despite promises from Labour that disabled people would work in partnership with the Fabian Society, the thinktank commissioned to carry […]

Labour refuses to make co-production pledge for new social care inquiry

By John Pring on 7th July 2022 Category: Independent Living

Labour refuses to make co-production pledge for new social care inquiry
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Leading party members and activists have raised serious concerns over Labour’s refusal to promise that a new review of its adult social care policy will be co-produced with disabled people. Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting announced this week […]

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths

By John Pring on 7th April 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

EHRC ‘has become extension of government’ after dropping probe into DWP deaths
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The equality watchdog has been accused of failing disabled people and becoming “an extension of government”, after dropping any attempt to hold the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to account for its links to countless deaths of benefit claimants. In […]

EHRC decision to scrap committee ‘shows it is unaware of threat to disabled people’

By John Pring on 24th March 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

EHRC decision to scrap committee ‘shows it is unaware of threat to disabled people’
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and disabled activists have written to the equality and human rights watchdog to express their deep concern over its decision to scrap its disability advisory committee. In the letter to the chair of the Equality and Human […]

New concerns over equality watchdog as it scraps disability committee

By John Pring on 3rd March 2022 Category: Human Rights

New concerns over equality watchdog as it scraps disability committee
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The equality watchdog has secretly decided to scrap its committee of disabled advisers, without attempting to consult on the move with disabled people and their organisations, Disability News Service (DNS) has learned. The decision by the Equality and Human Rights Commission […]

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