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As part of the DPO Forum England, we are calling on the new Government to listen to Disabled voices.
None of us are free until all of us are free - and that will only happen with complete, systemic overhaul and our transformative demands!
Read more here:
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🚨BREAKING: Disability Rights UK publishes our complaint to IPSO after the Daily Telegraph's shocking piece claiming Disabled people were a tax-burden and unworthy of state support.
Read our full complaint here:
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Disability Rights UK have issued a statement this afternoon, a response to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunts announcement on proposed benefit changes.
The dangerous language issued deserves a truthful response. Please share.
#benefits
#JeremyHunt
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Now the Government is claiming it is the 'duty' of Disabled people to work from home... maybe the government should 'do it's duty' of properly supporting Disabled people who are unable to work! We should not have to earn our humanity!
Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister
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🚨BREAKING - WE WON!
After months of campaigning, the government has abandoned a data bill, which would have given the DWP powers to spy on Disabled peoples' bank accounts.
Solidarity and credit to
@NSUNnews
,
@GMCDP
and
@WinVisibleWomen
for fighting side by side with us 🙌
Because of the general election the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passed by the Commons has fallen in the Lords.
Govt was seeking 24/7 powers to snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of benefits and state pension.
Govt avoided defeat in the Lords by giving in.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The UK Government is facing the United Nations for their violation of the rights of Disabled people in a weeks time.
What's happening on March 18th and how did we get here? A thread 🧵
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Today the PM issued some cold and borderline inhuman rhetoric on benefit reforms.
Again he wants to make life harder for Disabled and vulnerable people after announcing a "chilling" set of reforms to force people back to work.
This persecution has to end.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Charity for Disabled children funnelling over 40% of its funds to right-wing think-tanks.
Utterly shocking - an example of what happens when disability organisations aren't run by us, for us, with lived-experience at the forefront.
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🚨BREAKING
Alongside 25 Disabled Peoples Organisations, activists, anti-racism organisations, & migrant rights groups, we have written to the Prime Minister to condemn the recent onslaught of attacks from the Government on Disabled People's rights.
More👇
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The UK Government will be facing the UN on March the 18th, to give evidence on their violation of human rights of Disabled people under the UN charter. Finally, scrutiny on the global stage - DR UK will be out there reporting live
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Today, the Government have yet again gone on the attack by singling out Disabled people as a burden on the benefits system.
Utterly untrue, but we continue to be the whipping community for ALL government economic failure.
Enough. This is just cruelty.
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Disability Rights UK have issued a statement in response to chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
remarks today on benefit claimants and the benefit system.
#ToryPartyConference
#costofliving
#benefits
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SUNAK: "I will never dismiss or downplay the illnesses people have."
Meanwhile:
The UN found that government policy has “undermined the human dignity” of disabled people, they also found disabled people are “demonised” by the government
Rishi? Respond?
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🚨BREAKING NEWS
7 days into the new
@UKLabour
Government & there is STILL no Minister for Disabled people.
We've written
@10DowningStreet
to urge the PM to make this appointment NOW.
16 million Disabled people let down badly by the previous administration deserve representation👇
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We will not be mourning a Government that implemented the benefits cuts that meant many families were having to grieve their loved ones.
If the new Prime Minister cares about disability equality, he should commit to a reversal of the cuts we have suffered over the last decade.
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The £100 million Work and Health Programme, to help Disabled people get into work, will be scrapped
Meanwhile the PM orders Disabled and vulnerable people into work by cutting benefits
This Government has failed Disabled people
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Today the chancellor made the wrong decisions for Disabled people everywhere.
Punishing people for being on benefits is morally unacceptable.
Please support Disabled people!
Support our manifesto! Visit to read our demands and to pledge your support!
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The UK Government is refusing to attend a meeting at the UN to review its treatment of Disabled people under the UNCRPD. It has told the UN Committee that it does not want to undergo public scrutiny on its progress at the meeting.
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Disability Rights UK responds to todays benefit announcement which reads as a crackdown on Disabled claimants!
Read the full statement here: 👇
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Labour breaks it's promise to implement UN Disability rights policy into UK law if it wins the next general election.
More from
@johnpringdns
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Disability Rights UK have issued a response to Chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
#AutumnStatement
Once again Disabled people are being demonised.
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To threaten those who live with a disability or long term illness with removal of benefits, free prescriptions & legal aid is nothing shock of horrific.
The message seems to be if you refuse to work, we will remove all your essential support.
UNACCEPTABLE!
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7 days on, still no Disability Minister appointed.
When the last Government demoted this position, it showed us just how little Disabled peoples' lives mattered to them.
The new Government has the chance to change that, but will they follow in the same footsteps...?
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Seven-time Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft says Disabled people in Britain are being 'almost criminalised' in the way they are treated.
'Britain is a really scary place to be as a Disabled person right now'
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Disability Rights UK, alongside other leading disability organisations, have urged the new labour government to pause Conservative plans for "worrying" and "dangerous" changes to disability benefits.
Read more:
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The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) which
@DisRightsUK
co-lead release a response to the PM today after he announced a chilling set of reforms to force Disabled people back to work.
Read and please share the statement here via this link: 👇👇
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The Prime Minister thinks it's okay to punch down on marginalised groups, using us as a cheap joke whilst we all suffer at the hands of their policies.
Complete solidarity with Trans people being made into a cheap political football in the midst of grief.
#PMQs
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The
#GeneralElection
has been called.
We remind ALL parties that Disabled voices must NOT be ignored.
Share & read the The Disabled People's Manifesto.
Nothing about us without us!
Ask your local MP to support!
Manifesto | DPO Forum Manifesto ()
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Tories are back to monstering people on benefits – and it has nothing to do with saving money by
@DrFrancesRyan
The Government's plan to 'force Disabled people into work is pure performative cruelty'
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🚨BREAKING: DR UK Statement on Media Abuse of Disabled People
We all have a duty to combat hate speech and recognise the importance of living in a society where we support one another. Read and share our statement here!
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So if we show up a few minutes late for our UC appointments, our benefits are sanctioned, but we're expected to put up with no Minister for Disabled People for the last FIVE days and counting?
Are we so unimportant this post can remain empty for a whole working week?!
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DR UK says the PM must stop scapegoating Disabled people for a failing economy!
Today he delivered a scathing attack on so-called ‘sick note culture’ and that life on benefits had become a "lifestyle choice"
Read our response here:
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
First
@covidinquiryuk
report ‘shows criminally negligent’ attitude of previous governments towards protecting Disabled, racialised and working-class communities.
More from
@johnpringdns
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"DWP benefits 'too low' to cover basic living costs, government warned: 'Completely unacceptable'"
We already knew this!😡
Disabled people deserve a better safety net. Low benefits are the underlining cause of so much poverty!
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
More than 60,000 Disabled people and people with long-term illnesses in England were chased for debts by councils last year after being unable to pay for their social care support at home.
Social care should be free!
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🚨NEWS🚨
It's been confirmed that
@stephenctimms
is the new Government's Minister for Social Security and Disability.
We look forward to discussions and collaboration to ensure Disabled people's voices and experiences are centred when formulating government policy.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
DR UK, alongside other Disability and Anti-Poverty Groups, Calls on New Government To Scrap Tories' Proposed WCA Reforms
Read our open letter to
@leicesterliz
calling for Disabled people to be put at the heart of future policymaking
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
United Nations Summons UK Government Over Breaches of UN Convention on Disabled People’s Rights
#CRDP24
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🚨TOMORROW the UK Government will finally face up to the UN to explain their violations of the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons.
🧵Thread on the convention articles being investigated and how you can tune in to watch the hearing LIVE⬇️
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Absolutely despicable from The Telegraph, claiming Disabled people are a 'tax burden' for being too sick to work.
We *should* be given the money we need to live! What makes people think they will be exempt from being disabled by society one day...?
🔴 Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden to hit its highest point since the Second World War.
Use our calculator to reveal how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state ⬇️
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📰UK Gov Dementia Adviser has resigned over the prosecutions of unpaid carers.
After "absolutely no progress at all on social care", he said that "the latest thing" of DWP reclaiming benefits from carers and Disabled people "is beyond the pale"
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Government has made a U-turn on this morning's announcement to scrap the Disability Minister. This is what we said to the Prime Minister about his original decision.
Click the link for an accessible version of the letter.
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Horrifying statement.
Disabled and immunocompromised people, alongside considerate carers and loved ones, were (and are!) petrified to leave our homes because Government policies allowed COVID-19 to run rife with little concern for our lives.
BREAKING 🚨🚨 | Boris Johnson labelled people who were concerned about returning to workplaces during the pandemic as “work shy, malingering people.”
Over 230,000 people lost their lives due to Covid in the UK.
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CW: Death
Errol Graham was a Disabled man who has his benefits stopped by the DWP. He starved to death.
Finally, an official inquiry has ruled the DWP should not have stopped his benefits. This comes after the DWP hid evidence from the original inquiry.
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'Those that can work, should work'
❌WCA reforms pushing Disabled people who are too unwell to work into job-seeking
❌No commitment to making workplaces more accessible
❌Dog whistle ableism painting us out as 'workshy' 'scroungers'
#Budget2024
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The Government is trying to push through a bill that would allow them to spy on our bank accounts, violating our financial privacy and independence.
As benefits claimants, we are already policed and under surveillance in so many ways... we must resist this!
👁️All our bank accounts could come under Government surveillance under the premise of detecting welfare fraud.
⚠️This is a major expansion of state power that takes away our financial privacy.
We must unite against this extreme state overreach⤵️
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We, alongside over 20 other disability and welfare rights organisations, called the DWP out on their ‘shocking and shameful’ duty of care.
Claimants and our safety *should be* at the forefront of DWP policy
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This week we made closing submissions with other Disabled People’s Orgs
#CovidInquiryUK
, noting Disabled ppl were invisible in pandemic planning. The next day, the Govt decided there should no longer be a dedicated Minister for Disabled people. Their actions speak volumes 🧵
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✅Appoint a Disability Minister and take the first opportunity to show Disabled people we will be listened to by the new Government
❌Follow in the footsteps of the last Government and keep the position downgraded
Shouldn't be a difficult choice, should it...?
@10DowningStreet
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Ministers have drawn up large benefit changes for people who are unable to work due to health conditions, the BBC has learned.
The government are targeting the long-term sick and the Disabled with these plans!
UNACCEPTABLE!
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📣Important event hosted by
@BrilLiving
on September 8th!
Bristol council are trying to push through a policy that says Disabled people can be put in care homes if it is more 'cost-effective' - bringing institutionalisation back. We must all fight this!
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Disabled Activists Will Deliver Book Exposing Deaths At Hands of DWP To Every Member of Parliament
The book reveals the DWP as being complicit in the deaths of hundreds of Disabled people… Will MPs read it?
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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To label those on benefits as “shirkers” is language that is harmful and potentially destructive to those who rely on the benefit system, especially Disabled people.
We have the least generous welfare system in Western Europe, that's the real problem here!
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UK Government at the UN saying they want to help Disabled people 'start, stay and succeed in work' and a benefits system that 'focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot'
More dog whistles and commitment to the suffering of Disabled people unable to work
#CRDP24
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Keir Starmer called his budget 'painful'.
It will be painful - for the millions of Disabled people, migrants, working-class people and people of colour who are still suffering under continued austerity cuts.
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This is a dangerous proposal, and thank you to
@BigBrotherWatch
for highlighting all the downfalls!
We do not need more technology that will increase surveillance of Disabled, working class and racialised people, who are already under having our rights eroded.
⚠️Former Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for AI-scanning powers in the welfare system
"Mistakes can determine whether claimants can afford to feed themselves, heat their houses, or pay for essential medication" -
@susannahcopson
Read |
@BigIssue
⤵️
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“The
@TheGreenParty
returned their Disability Scorecard ahead of schedule with a majority of “yes” responses, suggesting the Green Party are committed to meeting the needs of the 16 million Disabled people residing in the UK”
Read the full story here:
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Lawyers representing DR UK and other DPOs at the
#CovidInquryUK
questioned Michael Gove on why Disabled people were not seen as a priority for support during the pandemic
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🚨SHOCKING DWP STAFF TESTIMONY
'I am shocked at how we are being pressurised into sanctioning our customers instead of offering a whole load of assistances available'
Full report into DWP working conditions:
With thanks to
@PollardTom
for highlighting!
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'Normal anxieties of life', like poverty, homelessness, food insecurity?
These all *have* become normalised under this government's regime of social security cuts and sanctions, but they shouldn't be normal. And ministers shouldn't speak about Disabled people in this way.
🔴 Britain’s approach to mental health is in danger of having “gone too far” and “normal anxieties of life” are being labelled as an illness, the Work and Pensions Secretary has warned.
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UN's UK rapporteur spoke of the 'repeated pattern of Disabled people turning to suicide after being denied an adequate standard of living and social protection?'
The benefits system is not only NOT trauma informed, but it is 'trauma INDUCING'
#CRDP24
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The ticket office closure consultation has been extended! Given the inaccessibility and short notice of the original consultation, we welcome this step for more Disabled people to have our voices heard on a proposed policy that will disproportionately impact us
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
We are calling for an end to the 'persecution' of unpaid carers. We should not have to account for the DWP's mistakes, whilst struggling to survive and care for loved ones on the breadline!
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Ahead of the Autumn statement on Wednesday
@DisRightsUK
and The Disability Poverty Campaign Group have written to the chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
urging him to make much-needed, more humane, stronger financial decisions for the country’s 14 million Disabled people and their carers.👇
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Tory government 'demonises' Disabled people who face 'onerous' benefits system, UN warns by
@BigIssue
@IsabellaMcrae
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"They are only interested in disabled people as far as they can push them into work." -
@DrFrancesRyan
in the Guardian today.
De-moting the disability minister makes very clear where the Government's priorities are.
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'I'm going to die and I'm still not sick enough for PIP': The reality of DWP disability benefits system'
Today,
@johnpringdns
's book detailing the corruption and brutality buried into the DWP, is released.
Order here:
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UN's UK rapporteur says the Gov's complicity in the rhetoric that Disabled people are 'undeserving, skiving off, defrauding the system' can lead to an increase in hate crime and discrimination - wonder what the government who 'condemns hate speech' can respond to that?
#CRDP24
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🚨 Tomorrow, the UK Government is facing the UN for their violation of Disabled People’s rights.
DR UK is reporting live from the hearing in Geneva - make sure to tune in on the UN website and see our coverage throughout. We cannot let them sweep this under the carpet!
#CRDP24
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Any answer to the 23,662 deaths over 5 years due to social care cuts?
The thousands of Disabled people incarcerated in inpatient care against their will?
The 430,000 Disabled people waiting for a PIP review?
No, just some info on the Gov's flawed social media campaign
#CRDP24
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Wheelchairs, prams, books and lots of militant Disabled activists blocking the entrance to Portcullis House until they let us in 💥
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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According to the UN, the UK Government systematically discriminates against Disabled people.
Visit to read our collective demands and to pledge your support!
✍️Sign the petition
📧Email your MP
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🚨NEWS🚨
Benefits Claimants Have Been Treated as a Political Punching Bag this General Election
DR UK Campaigner Mikey speaks of how both leading parties' campaigning has focused on forcing Disabled people back into work. We are not a political football!
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DR UK release a statement on
@UKLabour
coming into power asking for a transformational plan to tackle the injustices and inequalities faced by Disabled people, a plan to be coproduced with Disabled people.
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Disability Rights UK are supporting
@MartinSLewis
in his campaign to postpone the planned April energy price hike.
#CostOfLivingCrisis
UPDATE. Now over 85 charities support the call. Recently added include
@WhichUK
,
@alzheimerssoc
,
@cftrust
,
@autism
and more...
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As Disabled people are experiencing disproportionately high food, energy and housing costs and a reduction in public services the Government has left us without a disability minister.
Join us in calling on the Government to re-appoint this post.
#BringBackTheDisabilityMinister
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
After sustained campaigning led by
@BrilLiving
, Bristol have dropped their proposed policy that would lock Disabled people in care homes if it was 'cost-effective.'
Amazing news for all the people campaigning against these unjust policies!
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🚨NEWS🚨Disability benefit assessment 'reform' will push more people with illnesses into work.
Lowering the already dangerously low 'fit to work' threshold will see Disabled people hit by benefit sanctions if we are made to work when we're unable to
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Austerity has made us sicker and poorer - no wonder disability claims have trebled in the last decade.
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Make sure you tune in! DR UK will be there and reporting live. Further information:
⏰March 18th, 2pm - 3:30pm (GMT)
📍You can watch the livestream on this webpage:
We won't let them brush this endemic injustice under the carpet - watch and share widely!
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A Disabled man has been told he will soon no longer get a daily visit from a care worker to help him shower and get dressed.
DJ Calvert said: "I've been let down - and I'm not the only one."
The social care system is collapsing! Where is the funding?
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UN rapporteur Laverne Jacobs highlights that the UK government's benefits assessments process has led to around 600 deaths in the last 3 years
#CRPD24
What answer does the government have to that?
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Disabled people are 20% of the electorate, yet none of the parties are talking about tackling systemic inequalities we face!
Ask your candidates how they will improve life for Disabled citizens, show them our manifesto!
Manifesto | DPO Forum Manifesto ()
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🗣️"Jeremy Hunt’s benefit crackdown will worsen an already terrible system."
Our campaigner Mikey has written for
@openDemocracy
about the anguish the welfare system causes Disabled people and how today's announcements won’t help.
Read 👇
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Only 13% of people are satisfied with the social care system, and we can't say we're surprised when it routinely lets down people in need of support - not deprivation of their liberty.
'Disabled people don't need another inquiry. We need change.'
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There are 16 million Disabled people in the UK. We refuse to be left behind.
Visit to read our collective demands and to pledge your support!
✍️Sign the petition
📝Email your MP
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There are over 16 million Disabled people in the UK!
We deserve to have our say at the ballot box!
If you haven't already registered to vote and apply for voter ID do it NOW.
Don’t leave it until the last minute.
#generalelection
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The UNCRPD found the UK Government had 'grave and systemic' violations against Disabled people's rights because of austerity measures and welfare reforms, especially changes to:
➡️Housing benefit
➡️Eligibility criteria for PIP and social care
➡️Ending of Independent Living Fund
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Our statement in full solidarity with Black and brown communities in the face of fascist violence.
'It is not enough to condemn ongoing violence if we refuse to look at how we have normalised Islamophobic and racist state policies, discourse and media coverage'
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) will gather next month to discuss a manifesto of policy demands ahead of the next general election.
💥The manifesto 'unifies our demands and pushes for concrete political change'
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Boxes of 650 copies of The Department packaged up in Black envelopes ready to be delivered to every MP…. that Portcullis House are now not letting in despite telling us otherwise before!
So we are holding a sit-in until they let us in!
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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Over 2 hours blocking Portcullis House 🚪
Police interference ❌
650 copies of The Department by
@johnpringdns
blocking the entrance 📚
Loaded up into a van, ready to be posted to every MP - we won’t let them stop us!
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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Ticket office closures will...
❌Remove in-person assistance we need to access ramps and toilets
❌Impact digitally-excluded adults (Disabled people are 4x less likely to have access to the internet)
❌Reduce Disabled people's feelings of safety
❌Lock us out of the rail network
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Proposals to close hundreds of rail ticket offices are officially scrapped!!
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Liberal Democrats make Care and UN rights of Disabled people central to their manifesto, as well as promises on SEN education and benefit reform.
Read the full story on the
@DisRightsUK
website: 👉
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📅MARCH 18TH: The date the UK Government, after their cancellation in August, postponed to.
The Gov will be facing the UN committee on this date, and we will all be watching closely to ensure they can hide from public scrutiny no longer!
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More than two million Britons have gone without energy in the last three months, according to new polling.
We know Disabled people are turning of essential health and medical equipment because of poverty!
This is a health catastrophe!
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UN rapporteur Rosemary Kayess today:
'Reforms within social welfare benefits are premised on a notion that Disabled people are undeserving, skiving off and defrauding the system - this has resulted in hate speech and hostility towards Disabled people'
#CRDP24
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