WOWcampaign

May 17, 2018 0

WOW Campaign is back, and pushing for a second House of Commons debate

Disabled campaigners are relaunching the WOW Campaign in a bid to secure a debate in the House of Commons on the need for the government to assess the financial damage caused to disabled people through its cuts and reforms. Four years ago, nearly 105,000 people signed a petition launched by the WOW Campaign that

Transport

February 15, 2018 0

Motability row sparks anger and demand to use huge reserves to support customers

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Disabled campaigners have reacted to the political row over the Motability car scheme by calling for the organisation that runs it to use part of its huge financial reserves to increase support for disabled people. Details emerged in a newspaper last week of the “grotesque” levels of pay and bonuses awarded to senior executives

Employment

Frank Field speaking at a session of the work and pensions committee

September 21, 2017 0

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

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Disabled activists have called for a Labour MP to resign as chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, after he called for employers to be allowed to pay some disabled people less than the minimum wage. Frank Field (pictured) made the call in a new collection of essays on employment and disabled

Benefits and Poverty

Stephen Carre smiling and stroking a black cat

November 13, 2015

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Stephen Carre WCA scandal: Tory ministers ‘knew their policy was lethal’

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Disabled activists have called for ministers to face a criminal investigation, over their apparent failure to hand a crucial coroner’s report about the discredited “fitness for work” test to their own independent expert. Earlier this week, a Disability News Service (DNS) investigation revealed that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith and employment minister

Activism and Campaigning

November 6, 2015

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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 own social security and equality advisers, and independent experts – that it is

Activism and Campaigning

Dennis Queen speaking, while surrounded by police

October 9, 2015

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‘Trench warfare’ as DPAC protesters shame Tories outside their conference

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Disabled activists have explained why they needed to hold the government to account over its “sickening” and “degrading” cuts by protesting outside this week’s Conservative party conference in Manchester. The protest, organised by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), saw disabled people take a central role in the middle of wider anti-austerity protests that took

Benefits and Poverty

September 25, 2015

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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 (DNS) approached Atos following last week’s revelation that a coroner had demanded government

Politics

September 25, 2015

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DWP exposes IDS ‘lies’ about success of Disability Confident campaign

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Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of lying to his own party conference about the success of his campaign to encourage employers to be more “disability confident”. Duncan Smith (pictured) told last year’s conference in Birmingham that more than 1, 000 employers had “signed up” to the Disability Confident campaign, which

Benefits and Poverty

July 10, 2015

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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 support given to new claimants in the work-related activity group (WRAG) of employment

Benefits and Poverty

Protester in wheelchair holding sign saying 'The needy, paying for the sins of the greedy'

July 3, 2015

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Disability poverty rose sharply in fourth year of coalition

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The proportion of disabled people living in poverty rose sharply in the fourth year of the coalition government, according to official figures. Disabled campaigners say the rise was an inevitable consequence of a string of cuts to disabled people’s support under the coalition government. It is one of the first pieces of evidence to

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