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Government fails to act over minister who shared post on ‘dangerous’ DWP policies

By John Pring on 9th May 2024 Category: Politics

Government fails to act over minister who shared post on ‘dangerous’ DWP policies
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The government is refusing to act or criticise its minister for disabled people after she shared a social media post that attacked her own department’s disability benefit reforms. Last week, Mims Davies shared a post on Twitter by a disability charity […]

Minister shares post that branded her own government’s PIP reforms ‘dangerous’

By John Pring on 2nd May 2024 Category: Politics

Minister shares post that branded her own government’s PIP reforms ‘dangerous’
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The minister for disabled people has refused to explain why she shared a social media post that described her own government’s disability benefit reforms as “dangerous” and accused ministers of “demonising” disabled people. Mims Davies, who has been minister for disabled […]

Activists’ shock as Scope ‘sacrifices integrity’ to partner with ‘hostile’ Daily Express

By John Pring on 25th April 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activists’ shock as Scope ‘sacrifices integrity’ to partner with ‘hostile’ Daily Express
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Shocked disabled campaigners have questioned why the disability charity Scope has partnered with a “scaremongering” national newspaper notorious for its hostile coverage of disabled people and other marginalised groups. The Daily Express is the official partner for Scope’s second Disability Equality […]

Ministers ramp up hostile rhetoric, a decade after Osborne, Cameron and Duncan Smith

By John Pring on 5th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Ministers ramp up hostile rhetoric, a decade after Osborne, Cameron and Duncan Smith
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Conservative ministers have used their party conference to ramp up rhetoric that blames disabled people on out-of-work benefits for the country’s economic problems, just as they did in the post-2010 coalition government. Following months of media articles highlighting the growth in […]

Benefit levels are too low to meet disabled people’s needs, MPs hear

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit levels are too low to meet disabled people’s needs, MPs hear
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The government should commission an annual independent assessment of the level of benefits because they are “demonstrably” too low to meet people’s needs, a disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has told MPs. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing evidence yesterday […]

Scope admits ‘falling short’ after excluding people of colour at awards

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

Scope admits ‘falling short’ after excluding people of colour at awards
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The disability charity Scope has been forced to apologise after facing accusations that its new annual awards ceremony excluded disabled people of colour, as well as those who are clinically vulnerable to Covid. The charity has also been criticised for refusing […]

Conservative conference: New minister silent on plummeting Access to Work figures

By John Pring on 7th October 2021 Category: Employment

Conservative conference: New minister silent on plummeting Access to Work figures
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The new minister for disabled people has refused to comment on figures that show how spending on Access to Work (AtW) plummeted during the pandemic, despite ministers plugging the programme during this week’s Conservative party conference. Chloe Smith highlighted the scheme […]

Government ‘treats disabled people with contempt’ by handing £2.4 million to charities

By John Pring on 1st April 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Government ‘treats disabled people with contempt’ by handing £2.4 million to charities
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The government has been accused of showing “contempt” and “indifference” towards disabled people, after announcing large grants to 13 disability charities but failing to offer a penny to organisations run and controlled by disabled people. The Department of Health and Social […]

Two flagship DWP disability jobs schemes slated in front of MPs

By John Pring on 25th February 2021 Category: Employment

Two flagship DWP disability jobs schemes slated in front of MPs
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Two of the government’s flagship disability employment schemes have been heavily criticised by a pair of disabled campaigners in a parliamentary evidence session. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing evidence for its inquiry into the disability employment gap, the […]

Scope and Leonard Cheshire merger talks are met with scorn and concern

By John Pring on 13th August 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Scope and Leonard Cheshire merger talks are met with scorn and concern
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Disabled activists have dismissed talk of a possible merger between two of the country’s largest disability charities as a “rebranding” exercise that would only “shore up a failing business model”. Scope and Leonard Cheshire this week denied reports – based apparently […]

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