John Pring's Disability News Round Up -

12/19/2012 08:22:00 am BenefitScroungingScum 3 Comments



  • The government has made “significant changes” to the criteria it will use to assess disabled people’s eligibility for the new personal independence payment (PIP), but early analysis of the alterations suggests key concerns remain.
  • Hundreds of thousands of disabled people who claim disability living allowance (DLA) will not have to be reassessed for at least two years, after the coalition announced a major retreat on its reform timetable.
  • The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to break its promise to publish thousands of public responses to its controversial disability living allowance (DLA) consultation by the end of this year.
  • Leading members of the self-advocacy movement have given a guarded response to the government’s report into the Winterbourne View abuse scandal.
  • The government has pledged to move hundreds of people with learning difficulties out of hospitals and into new homes in the community, in the wake of the Winterbourne View abuse scandal.
  • The equality watchdog has provided new fuel for its critics after announcing plans to work with the Poundland retail chain on its disability policies, before withdrawing the announcement and refusing to comment on the story.
  • A new network of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) is to draw up a manifesto and plan a week of campaigning action across the UK in a bid to “sharpen the struggle” against the coalition’s attacks on disability rights.
  • The government must back Lord Justice Leveson’s call for disabled people’s organisations to be allowed to lodge complaints with the press regulator about misleading and disablist newspaper coverage, say campaigners.

News provided by John Pring at www.disabilitynewsservice.com

3 comments:

"The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to break its promise to publish thousands of public responses to its controversial disability living allowance (DLA) consultation by the end of this year." - Because they couldn't find ANY that made them look good!

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Anonymous said...

People who are ill with brain condition such as iih should be on the list because people loose everything. It's all connected to brain cell. I'm one of them I've been fighting 3 years hospital every 6 month. You don't know what its like looseing your balance and eye sight and fits.