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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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Using personal assistants works, research concludes… but it can go wrong
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 6 July: Using personal assistants works, research concludes… but it can go wrong Enabling disabled people with support needs to employ personal assistants (PAs) – rather than relying on traditional care workers … Continue reading
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Tagged John Pring, PAs, personal assistants, Prof Tom Shakespeare
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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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UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 29 June 2017: UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government guilty of violating the UN disability convention … Continue reading
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Tagged John Pring, UK government, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD
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UK’s Zero rating puts it near foot of European league table on disability rights
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 1 June 2017: UK’s Zero rating puts it near foot of European league table on disability rights The UK is one of the worst-performing countries in Europe when it comes to implementing … Continue reading
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Tagged John Pring, UNCRPD, United Nations Convention on the Rights of disabled people
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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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UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities publishes questions for UK Government
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities publishes issues to present to UK Government UNCPRD CRPD/C/GBR/Q/1 29 March 2017: List of issues in relation to the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland A … Continue reading
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Tagged disability rights, John Pring, UNCRPD, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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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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