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Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community & disability movement
Disability News service blog post by John Pring,2018: Project offers new bridge between chronic illness community and disability movement A disabled researcher has suggested a way to bring the hundreds of thousands of people with chronic illness under the umbrella … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Hale, Centre for Welfare Reform, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, disability, Disability news service, disabled people, John Pring, social model
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PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights
Disability news service blog post, by John pring, 6 July 2017: PIP reassessments cause more than half DLA claimants to lose Motability rights More than half of those disabled people previously eligible for the Motability vehicle scheme have lost that … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, Disability Rights UK, DWP, John Pring, motability vehicles, Personal Independence Payment, PIP
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Universal credit rules are forcing sick claimants into work activity
Disability news service blog post by John Pring, 25 May 2017: Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into work activity By John Pring on May 25, 2017 “Very dangerous” rules are forcing severely-ill people applying for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, Employment and Support Allowance, ESA, fit-to-work assessments, John Pring, Universal credit
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Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 27 April 2017: Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’ Activists hope a new non-partisan online campaign – based on a successful US user-led movement – could finally enable … Continue reading
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Tagged #CripTheVoteUK, disability, Disability news service, General election, John Pring
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PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among assessors
Disability news service blog post , by John Pring, 6 April 2017: PIP review ignores evidence of dishonesty among Atos and Capita assessors The former civil servant commissioned by the government to review its new disability benefit has refused to … Continue reading
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Tagged Atos, Capita, disability benefit assessments, Disability news service, John Pring, Paul Gray CB, Personal Independence Payment, PIP
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Law change could begin to improve treatment of disabled taxi users
GOV.UK press release, 6 April 2017: Law change provides equal treatment for disabled taxi users Law change makes it illegal for taxi drivers to discriminate against wheelchair users. Taxi drivers face a fine of up to £1,000 if they refuse to … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible transport, Disability news service, Doug Paulley, taxis
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UK government plans to help people with health conditions & disabilities into work need to improve
The UK Government green paper Work, Health and Disability: Improving Lives set out the government’s proposals on ways to halve the disability employment gap experienced by disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. The consultation closed on 17 Feb 2017. Interested … Continue reading
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Tagged Action for ME, disability employment, Disability news service, Disability Rights UK, Disability Wales, Green paper, Improving lives, South East Londond ME Support Group, Spartacus
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PIP investigation – widespread dishonesty of nurse assessors
Disability news service, by John Pring, 26 January 2017: PIP INVESTIGATION: Assessment reports show widespread dishonesty by nurses Healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of benefit claimants have lied, ignored written evidence and dishonestly reported the results of physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Atos, Benefits assessments, Capita, Department of Work and Pensions, Disability news service, DWP, John Pring
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Wheelchair user wins accessible bus travel Supreme court case
BBC News article, 18 January 20: ‘Wheelchair v buggy’: Disabled man wins Supreme Court case A disabled man has won a Supreme Court case after a dispute with a woman with a buggy over wheelchair space on a bus. It … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible transport, BBC news, bus travel, Disability news service, Disability Rights UK, Doug Paulley, wheelchair users
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EHRC launches inquiry into accessible housing
Equality & Human Rights Commission announcement, 14 Dec 2016: Inquiry into housing for disabled people On 14 December 2016 the Commission launched a formal inquiry on housing for disabled people. It will look at whether the availability of accessible and … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible housing, Disability news service, EHRC, Equality and Human Rights Commission, John Pring
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