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Disabled MP asks health and safety watchdog why it has never investigated DWP’s links to hundreds of deaths

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

Disabled MP asks health and safety watchdog why it has never investigated DWP’s links to hundreds of deaths
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The boss of the health and safety watchdog has been asked by a disabled MP why her organisation has never investigated the government’s “fitness for work” test, even though it was linked to nearly 600 suicides in less than three years. […]

Seven Tory ministers for disabled people stay silent on UN’s international rights day

By John Pring on 5th December 2019 Category: Human Rights

Seven Tory ministers for disabled people stay silent on UN’s international rights day
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Not one of the seven ministers for disabled people who have served in the post since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 issued a message of support on social media on the UN’s international day of disabled people this week. […]

DWP ‘lies again’ about impact of benefits freeze on disabled people

By John Pring on 18th July 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DWP ‘lies again’ about impact of benefits freeze on disabled people
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of a “brazen repetition of a known lie” about the impact on disabled people of one of the government’s major spending cuts, following the publication of a damning new report. The […]

Still no replacement for Newton, seven days after resignation

By John Pring on 21st March 2019 Category: Politics

Still no replacement for Newton, seven days after resignation
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The government has given no indication of when – or even if – it intends to appoint a replacement for the minister for disabled people, Sarah Newton, who resigned last week over Brexit. Nearly a week after Newton’s resignation, no replacement […]

Discrimination faced by disabled DWP staff leaps by half in four years

By John Pring on 28th February 2019 Category: Employment

Discrimination faced by disabled DWP staff leaps by half in four years
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The proportion of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff who say they have been victims of disability discrimination at work in the previous 12 months has risen by about 50 per cent in just four years, Civil Service figures have […]

Long-awaited Newton meeting confirms confusion over DPO engagement

By John Pring on 21st February 2019 Category: Human Rights

Long-awaited Newton meeting confirms confusion over DPO engagement
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Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have raised ongoing concerns about the government’s failure to comply with basic principles of the UN disability convention at a long-awaited meeting with the minister for disabled people. Representatives of six of the UK’s leading DPOs met […]

‘Shocking’ PIP death figures ‘show assessment process is unfit for purpose’

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

‘Shocking’ PIP death figures ‘show assessment process is unfit for purpose’
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About 1,600 working-age disabled people are dying every year after having their claim for disability benefits rejected, the government has been forced to admit. The Department for Work and Pensions figures (DWP) reveal that 7,990 disabled people who lodged a claim […]

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate
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The minister for disabled people has been forced to apologise to MPs after Disability News Service (DNS) caught her misleading MPs about support for disabled people for the fourth time in less than a year. The misleading comments by Sarah Newton […]

DPO welcomes ‘ground-breaking partnership’ with elected mayor

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

DPO welcomes ‘ground-breaking partnership’ with elected mayor
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A ground-breaking new partnership between disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and Greater Manchester’s elected mayor could become a “template” for future work with local authorities across the region, according to one leading DPO. Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) said this […]

Minister seeks recruits for new disability network… but refuses to pay them

By John Pring on 31st January 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Minister seeks recruits for new disability network… but refuses to pay them
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The minister for disabled people is refusing to pay the chairs and members of nine new regional groups she is setting up to bring the views of disabled people and their organisations closer to government. The refusal to pay for their […]

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