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Brexit vote: Fear and uncertainty over impact of EU exit

By John Pring on 30th June 2016 Category: Human Rights

Brexit vote: Fear and uncertainty over impact of EU exit
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Campaigners and experts say they fear that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) could have serious consequences for disabled people, although it is too early for an accurate assessment of the likely impact. Among the concerns raised are that […]

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

By John Pring on 9th June 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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

MPs must accept fundamental flaws of personal budgets, says Beresford

By John Pring on 14th April 2016 Category: Independent Living

MPs must accept fundamental flaws of personal budgets, says Beresford
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A leading disabled academic has urged MPs to dismiss the conclusions of the public spending watchdog and accept instead that the government’s strategy on social care personal budgets is “fundamentally flawed”. Peter Beresford, professor of citizen participation at the University of […]

DPOs ‘hold the key to a welfare state fightback’ 

By John Pring on 4th March 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

Discredited Maximus adds care inspections to DWP portfolio

By John Pring on 18th December 2015 Category: Employment

Discredited Maximus adds care inspections to DWP portfolio
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The care watchdog has been criticised for awarding a discredited outsourcing giant new contracts to manage the use of service-users as expert advisers in care homes and hospitals. Two-thirds of the new contracts to run Experts by Experience – which pays […]

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

By John Pring on 6th November 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Atos ‘has no idea’ if surgeon is still assessing claimants

By John Pring on 25th September 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Michael O’Sullivan inquest: Atos ‘has no idea’ if surgeon is still assessing claimants
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Government contractor Atos Healthcare claims it has no idea if a former surgeon whose flawed assessment of a disabled man helped trigger his suicide is still testing people with mental health conditions for their eligibility for disability benefits. Disability News Service […]

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

By John Pring on 10th July 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’

By John Pring on 29th May 2015 Category: Politics

Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’
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Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years disabled campaigners have warned in the wake of this week’s Queen’s speech. The speech, which laid out plans for what the prime […]

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